The Indian launch vehicle PSLV has made another successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Launch Centre, Sriharikota, India, at 0427 GMT on 29 November 2018. The rocket’s main payload was HYSIS (Hyper-Spectral Imaging Satellite) for ISRO. There were 30 other...
India successfully launched the GSAT 29 communications satellite at 1138 GMT on a GSLV Mk III vehicle from Sriharikota on 14 November 2018. While its predecessor rocket the GSLV Mks 1 and 2 had a very poor launch record with a combined five failures out of 12, the...
The GSAT-6A communications satellite sporting a new 6m communications antenna to deliver mobile S-band communications to India was successfully launched into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) using a GSLV 2/CUSP rocket. Lift off from the Sriharikota launch site...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has revealed the cause of the recent launch failure of its PSLV launch vehicle. That flight (PSLV C39) in August 2017 failed to deliver the IRNSS-1H navigation satellite payload, which remains aboard the rocket. The...
Having flown 36 successful flights since its last (partial) failure in 1997, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was bound to be disappointed over the launch failure of its PSLV-C39 flight. The failure, which was caused by the fairing failing to separate...
Professor Udupi Ramachandra Rao (aka U.R. Rao), the former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation, which he lead from 1984 to 1994, has passed away at the age of 85. U.R. Rao, was a space physicist by training who specialised in cosmic ray research at MIT in...
