India’s Chandrayaan 2 achieved a make-or-break 29 minute burn to brake itself into lunar orbit on 20 August, after slowly raising its orbit and injecting itself in to a Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) orbit on 13 August. The burn was made at 0332 GMT on 20 August....
India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 0913 GMT on 22 July 2019, from the Sriharikota launch site. The initial plan was to place the spacecraft into a low Earth orbit. From here it will slowly raise its orbit and then be injected into a...
A PSLV rocket lifted off at one second past midnight on the morning of 22 May 2019 from the Sriharikota launch site in India. The PSLV-C46 flght was carrying the Risat 2B radar satellite carrying an X-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). The satellite has been...
A new version of India’s PSLV rocket made a launch of 29 satellites plus its own repurposed upper-stage spacecraft. This new version was the PSLV QL, which carries four solid rockets instead of the more normal six. The launch took place at 0357 GMT on 1 April 2019...
India has conducted the Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test shooting down of one of its own spacecraft, using a missile interceptor system. Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that the interception, under a project codenamed Mission Shankti, destroyed an orbiting satellite. In...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has inaugurated a new medium version of its PSLV rocket called the PSLV-DL which uses only two PSOM-XL strap on rockets instead of the more normal six. The first launch of this newly modified rocket on the PSLV-C44 flight...
