An Indian PSLV-CA (Core Alone) variant rocket lifted off from the Sriharikota launch site at 0101 GMT on 30 July 2023. Aboard were seven satellites. The main payload was the DS-SAR – a 352 kg radar satellite which is operated by DS Engineering for the...
An LVM3-2 (GSLV 3-2) rocket successfully launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission from the Sriharikota (Satish Dhawan Space Centre), India, at 0905 GMT on 14 July. The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) mission consisted of a propulsion module, lunar lander and lunar...
An Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) GSLV Mk II rocket (GSLV 2 CUSP 4) was successfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India at 0512 GMT on 29 May 2023. It carried NVS-01, a replacement satellite for IRNSS-1G. The 2,232 kg NVS 01 is, in...
A PSLV-CA launch vehicle (flight PSLV-C55) launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India at 0849 GMT on 22 April 2022. The flight was made under NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) – a commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It...
Having lost its access to space via Soyuz rockets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, OneWeb turned to other launch providers. One of these was the commercial arm of ISRO which began offering the GSLV 3 – now called the LMV3 rocket. Thus at 0430 GMT on 26...
An investigation by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into the failure of the maiden flight of its latest rocket, the SSLV, has revealed that an exceptional shock during separation compromised the guidance system. The SSLV-D1 launch seemed to go well with...