India terminates its first unmanned moon mission
Indian Space Research organisation has announced that the nation’s first unmanned moon mission is now finished.
ISRO is no longer able to connect to the spacecraft Chandrayaan.
ISRO Chief G Madhavan Nair said in a statement: “We are disappointed with what has happened, but we have managed to salvage [...]
ISRO to launch Mehga Tropiques weather satellite
Indian Space Research Organization has announced that they are now working on launching a weather satellite.
ISRO is working on launching this new satellite named Mehga Tropiques which has been co-developed by the Indian and French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).
This new satellite has been designed to [...]
India clears launch of Chandrayaan-II
Indian government has now given their approval for the Chandrayaan-II mission.
ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-II in 2011-12.
The approval was required to get enough funds for this mission.
Chandrayaan-I has been massively successful for ISRO and is a proud achievement for India.
Chandrayaan-I Project Director Mylswamy Annadurai said in a statement that [...]
Chandrayaan-I working successfully
India’s first lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-I has been launched successfully and ISRO has now confirmed that it is functioning properly.
Indian Space Research Organization said in a release: “The health of the spacecraft is normal.”
On Wednesday it was placed in an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 255 KM.
ISRO is now working on placing [...]
ISRO aiming for manned mission to Moon in 2014
Indian Space Research Organization has said that they are aiming to launch a manned mission to Moon in 2014.
They are already scheduled to launch the first unmanned mission to the moon on October 22.
ISRO is working on plans to launch the manned mission using a Geo-Synchronous Satellite [...]
India set to launch Chandrayaan-1 this month
India is going ahead with their space program with the scheduled launch of lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 later this month.
Chandrayaan-1 is currently scheduled for launch on October 22.
ISRO said in a statement on their plans: “We have set October 22 as the tentative date for the launch of lunar [...]
ISRO aims to launch Chandrayaan-I sometime this year
Indian space agency ISRO has revealed that they are planning to launch the country’s first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-I sometime later this year.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair spoke about their plans: “We are hopeful of launching the spacecraft in the third quarter of 2008-09. The mission would be [...]
