May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... number of satellites. The foreign satellites were released into orbit at intervals of four to 12 seconds Keeping this in mind, ISRO first planned to launch 83 satellites in a single shot in October 2016. Three months later it rose to 104. And the...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
...engines that power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ISRO’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been ... forward to develop end-to-end launch vehicles and satellites, ISRO said. "We want to help Indian startups that are ...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
...launching 104 satellites on a single mission, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014. But former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair expressed concern over the potential for such multi-satellite missions to create large...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
..., known as ‘new space’ seem to offer lower cost services. NASA, ESA, CNES, DLR, JAXA, CNSA and ISRO - among other space agencies - face questions that include: What is your longer term vision, and key...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... (Plan B) would have been activated, which meant using only the spacecraft’s eight 22 Newton thrusters. However, as ISRO chairman Koppillil Radhakrishnan put it, this would merely have been a “salvaging exercise”. Then, at 7.42 a.m. (IST) the long...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...orbiter - is orbiting the moon successfully," an official of ISRO told news agency IANS. The Chandrayaan 2 mission stood out...programme,” Mr Modi said as he addressed students present at the ISRO Centre last night. “Aim big in life and never let ...
