Every August Seradata does its usual analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Here we judge each space programme on the basis of technological ability, financial and other resources, national will and, most...
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...
