15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
... that extent the worry is there." ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched the 714 kg Cartosat-2 .... After a flight of 16 minutes 48 seconds, the satellites achieved a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit of 506 km inclined at an angle of 97.46 degree ...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... by the Sun, but a handful of others were ejected into polar orbits, meaning that instead of orbiting in an east-west type ... Sun’s rotation. However, it turns out that asteroids in polar orbits do exist today out beyond Neptune, our most distant ...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
... (SOSA), skCUBE successfully blasted into space with the aid of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, when it hitched a ride along with 30 other satellites. The satellite is packed...
15 January 2018
Earth-i launches first-of-a-kind satellite
... the manufacturers of the satellite, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), the prototype satellite was launched on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). CARBONITE-2 (referred to as VividX2...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... ready to announce tomorrow (Thursday) who will deliver it's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon, a new study could give the mission a head...
14 November 2019
Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems
... said the organisation's two next-generation meteorological satellite systems, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG), will help forecasters and climate scientists meet some of their biggest current...
