Every August – the silly season when hard news is hard to come by – this column does its bit to help out with an analysis of the runners and riders in the “Great Space Race”. We rate space nations’ space programmes in the form of bookmaker’s odds, according to which...
French satellite operator Eutelsat and UK government part-owned OneWeb have signed a merger deal that values the latter at US$3.4 billion. The acquisition by Eutelsat will see the creation of a new company to compete in the commercial space race with Elon Musk’s...
India’s space agency and industrial conglomerate, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully launched its PSLV CA rocket on flight C53 from the Sriharikota (Satish Dhawan Space Centre). The launch, under ISRO commercial subsidiary NewSpace...
The cause of the 12 August 2021 launch failure of the GSLV 2 CUSP 1 launch vehicle, which lost the EOS-03 satellite (formally called GISAT 1 GEO Imaging Satellite), has been revealed by India’s space agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). After a...
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-XL on flight PSLV-C52 injected Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04 (aka RISAT 1A) into its intended sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude some 18 minutes after its launch at 0029 GMT from Satish Dhawan Space Centre...
On 28 September 2021, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company under Department of Space (DOS) signed an contract with Arianespace to launch its GSAT-24 telecommunications satellite. The satellite will be launched on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket in the...
