December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...air of excitement and nervous apprehension in the mission operations complex at Bengaluru’s high-security Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network. Scientists and hundreds of media representatives were frisked...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
In a New Year message from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), its Chairman, K Sivan, has laid out the country’s space plans for the next decade. A number of projects will be focused on, including the development of a heavy lift launch ...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... had broken away from the rocket with no known problems. "Today is a historic day for space, science and tech in India," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said. It is historic not just for the fact that India will join...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
... the Moon. Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave no explanation for what it called a "technical snag" in the rocket nor a date for a new...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... it has plans to construct its own "very small" space station in the next decade. "Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan told reporters in New Delhi...
06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... are eagerly waiting for the event. Everything is going according to the plan," said K Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). "We're going to land at a place where no one else has gone before. We're confident about the soft...
