by David Todd | Mar 30, 2015 | India, Launches, Satellites
A PSLV-XL launch vehicle flying from its Sriharokota launch site (officially the Satish Dhawan Space Centre) in India, successfully launched the IRNSS-1D navigation satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The launch took place at 1149 GMT on 28...
by David Todd | Dec 18, 2014 | India, Launches, Suborbital, test
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted the first sub-orbital test launch of the GSLV Mk III launch vehicle carrying its Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE) at 0400 GMT on the 18th December 2014. The launch took place from the Satish...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | ESA, History, India, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News
While the heads of several space agencies delivered the usual platitudes about international cooperation at the IAC 2014, the “missing elephants in the room”, were China and Russia. So was this an indication that international space cooperation would, in future, be...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, India, Satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a PSLV launch vehicle from the Sriharikota launch site in India at 2002 GMT on 15 October 2014. On board the flight was the IRNSS-R1C navigation satellite. The satellite had a launch mass was 1425 kg and a...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2014 | exploration, India, Satellites, Science
India became only the fourth “nation” (after Soviet Union/Russia, USA and Japan) to send a probe to Mars using its own rocket, and the first to achieve this feat successfully on the first attempt. After making a 24 minute engine firing to brake its...
by David Todd | Jun 30, 2014 | India, Satellites, Science, Technology
At 0422 GMT on 30 September a PSLV launch vehicle successfully launched the 714kg Spot 7 Earth remote sensing satellite from the Sriharikota launch site in India. Also aboard was the AISAT for the DLR which is carrying a ship tracking payload, a pair of CAN-X...
