ISRO: Launch rehearsal of ISRO’s LVM 3 successful
Ahead of the country’s maiden experimental launch of latest generation vehicle GSLV Mk III , which would carry out the ‘Crew module Atmospheric Re- entry Experiment (CARE) on a suborbital mission on December 18, ISRO successfully carried out a rehearsal on Monday. “The nine hour 30 minutes launch rehearsal of ISRO LVM3 has just been successfully completed,” ISRO said in its social networking site. Confirming the success, a senior ISRO official said the countdown for the launch of GSLV Mk III/X CARE Mission (also known as LMV 3) woul…
Why India is a major new market for military space systems
In a first, the heads of the world’s largest democracies, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama got together to pen an op-ed declaring their commitment to a “robust, reliable and enduring” partnership amongst their respective nations. It’s a partnership whose time has come and is of particular significance in military and economic terms. The economic significance is apparent on considering numerous reports, ranging from McKinsey to Global Policy, predicting a shift of the world’s economic center of gravity t…
Isro's next challenge: Taming the 'naughty boy' GSLV
India has long proved its proficiency in launching the kind of rocket Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw lift off on Monday, but the country’s future growth in space will depend exclusively on its success with the indigenous Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) programme that is now far from reliable. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has been the work horse of Indian space programme, notching up 26 successful launches since 1994, but cannot carry communication satellites weighing more than 2,000kg into space. This …
India overcame US sanctions to develop cryogenic engine
The successful launch of GSLV-D5 on Sunday, powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine, is a major milestone for the country considering the challenges Isro has had to face in developing it over the past three decades. The quest to acquire cryogenic technology faced not just technological challenges but also geopolitical sanctions. In fact, the US had at one point tried to scuttle India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) project. A decade before that, in December 1982, India had formed a cryogenic study team to focus …
Why India's space exploration could be the next big thing
The successful launch of India's first inter-planetary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the sending up of India's first navigation satellite midnight, the launch of the Indo-French satellite SARAL, and signing up a couple of satellite launch contracts - all these put Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2013 amongst the select group of space-faring nations on a couple of counts. The year also saw ISRO deciding to embrace social media like Facebook and Twitter in a major way after tasting success during MOM, and the DMK p…
ISRO gets busy with GSLV launch
After slotting its nine-day-old navigation satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) now turns full steam on its next and high-stakes test, the flight of the Geo Synchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV) medium-lift satellite launcher. After slotting its nine-day-old navigation satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) now turns full steam on its next and high-stakes test, the flight of the Geo Synchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV) medium-lift satellite launcher. ISRO Chairman and Department of Space Secretary K. Ra…
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