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: Oceansat-2 is all set to launch in coming months
Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that they are prepared to launch their latest satellite, Oceansat-2 into the orbit of the Earth.
ISRO said that this new satellite would enable them to keep an eye on the cyclones. They would also get the ability to better predict [...]
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 [...]
Indian Space Research Organization aims for the Sun with mission Aditya
Indian Space Research Organization has announced their latest mission.
This new mission has been named Aditya and it would be launched in 2012.
The cost of the mission would be around Rs 500 million.
ISRO is aiming to send a probe to the Sun.
The aim [...]
India aims to have an astronaut in space by 2015
ISRO is working hard on a plan which aims to put an Indian astronaut in space by 2015.
China has already accomplished this feat and India does not want to be left far behind.
Indian Space Research Organization has said that they are aiming to put two [...]
Chandrayaan-1 has been a massive success for ISRO
ISRO has said that Chandrayaan-1 has been a massive success for India as it has been performing flawlessly since the launch.
Chandrayaan-1 has beamed back more than 40,000 images since its launch in October last year.
These images are beamed to Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu near [...]
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 [...]
ISRO aiming for a manned mission in 6-7 years
Indian Space Agency ISRO has said in a statement that they are planning on launching a manned mission to space in the next 6-7 years.
ISRO has just successfully completed their Chandrayaan-1 unmanned mission to moon.
They have submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister asking [...]
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-1 now sending back images from space
Chandrayaan-1 is turning out to be a huge success for India.
It has now started sending back images taken of the earth from space.
Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has expressed his delight in the success of the mission.
He spoke about the first of the pictures received [...]
