ISRO to launch RISAT satellite on Monday
Indian Space Research Organization is all set to launch a new spy satellite to space this coming Monday.
This spy satellite named RISAT has been manufactured in Israel.
It has been designed by the Israeli Aerospace Industries and it features Synthetic Aperture Radar technology capable of taking images from the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
India invited to become a member of International Education Space Board
India has been invited by the European Space Agency to join the International Education Space Board.
The board is seeking plans to build an international network of students interested in space science.
This was disclosed by the ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain. He added that they discussed [...]
