India's GSLV Mk-III Rocket To Launch Oneweb Satellites In Oct'22 And Jan'23: ISRO Chairman
India's heaviest rocket, the GSLV MK-III, will henceforth be used to perform commercial launches, with two such launches being planned in October this year and January next year, ISRO Chairman, Dr S Somanath said. This comes as a welcome development as India has been primarily using its workhorse PSLV rocket to orbit customer satellites. He mentioned that UK-based OneWeb had signed up as a customer for both these launches. This comes as a welcome development as it would be the maiden launch of the GSLV MK-III for a commercial mission. Nota…
India's Communication Satellite Gsat-24 All Set For Launch On Ariane-5 Rocket Tomorrow
C hennai: GSAT-24 , the 4,180 kg India's 24-Ku band communication satellite, will be launched by European Space Agency's (ESA) Arian Rocket from Kourou in French Guiana tomorrow. The satellite, with pan India coverage for meeting DTH application needs, will be launched along with a Malaysian communication satellite MEASAT-3d by Ariane-V VA257 flight tomorrow morning, ESA's Arianespace said. Arianespace’s second launch of 2022 with the first Ariane-5 of the year will place its satellite passengers into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.…
China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite
China launched an Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Saturday, according to authorities in charge of the program. A joint statement from the China National Space Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources said the Ziyuan 3-03 lifted off at 11:13 am atop a Long March 4B carrier rocket to a sun-synchronous orbit about 500 kilometers above the ground. The launch marked the 341st mission of the Long March rocket fleet. Developed by the China Ac…
Agnikul & Skyroot: Two Private Indian Companies Are Designing And Building Rockets
INDIA: A Chennai start-up, Agnikul Cosmos , is on its way to build India’s first private small satellite rocket and will seek help from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for conducting tests. After the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), an autonomous body under the Department of Space, announced it would help private players gain access to ISRO infrastructure, the IIT Madras incubated start-up received a much required boost.
ISRO to release Chandrayaan-2 data globally from October
Extensive data has been acquired from Chandrayaan-2 payloads and parameters are being derived for presence of water-ice in the polar regions, X-ray based and infrared spectroscopic mineral information, and mid and high-latitude presence of Argon-40, a condensable gas on the Moon which gets released internally by the radio-active decay, said ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) also said Tuesday marked an year of the launch of India's second moon mission by a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-MkIII-M1. It w…
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…
ISRO soon to test launch their advanced rocket soon
ISRO will test launch India's souped-up rocket - GSLV Mark III - from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh between December 15 and 20 to test the atmospheric stability of the launch vehicle. Once Isro masters heavier launch vehicles capable of putting four tonne satellites into orbit, India will not have to depend on France to put its bigger satellites into orbit and save precious foreign exchange, besides getting more business. The test flight of GSLV Mark III will also carry a crew model to test its re-entry characteristics. "I…
OneIndia Special: Sky thriller - When fighter plane Jaguar striker chased Nirbhay missile
Bengaluru, Nov 3: Among the tweets that went viral on Oct 17, 2014, the day India successfully test-fired its first subsonic cruise missile, Nirbhay, one read, "Jaguar fighter chases Nirbhay missile!" This tweet from this writer took many by surprise. Fighter plane chasing a missile was definitely a new phenomenon for many devotees following India's military might. And, two weeks after India's successful attempt of launching Nirbhay, details are now available with OneIndia about the well-coordinated ‘sky th…
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…
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Nirbhay will be backbone of ‘cold-start,’ say experts
Nirbhay, India’s first long-range subsonic cruise missile, which was test-fired on October 17, can be a game-changer in India’s strategic calculus, defence analysts and strategic experts feel. Capable of flying at a tree-top altitude for over 1,000 km, Nirbhay can carry out surgical strikes and thus back up India’s “cold start” doctrine that envisages limited, precise strikes across the border. The introduction of nuclear weapons in the subcontinent has virtually stalled a conventional Indian response to Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism…
India spikes US' Javelin missiles for Israel's 'Spike'
NEW DELHI: India today decided to buy 8,356 Spike anti-tank guided missile and 321 launchers from Israel for Rs 3,200 crore, rejecting US offer of Javelin missiles that Washington was lobbying hard for. The decision was taken following a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, that lasted for over two hours with Defence Secretary, the Chiefs of all three services, DRDO Chief and other senior officials attending it. India will outright buy 8,356 missiles and 321 launchers from the Israeli firm Ra…
Mars Orbiter Mission: Main liquid engine test firing successful
Bangalore: The Mars orbiter liquid engine test firing which was crucial in determining the fate of Mars Orbiter mission has been successful, as confirmed by ISRO. After igniting the engine, ISRO tweeted, "Mars Orbiter engine test firing must have completed. We'll get a confirmation after the communication delay of 12 minutes." A few minutes later, it tweeted the following: [ See Image Below ] India's Mars Orbiter Mission tested its last manoeuvre around 2.30pm Monday when the main liquid engine of the spacecraft was …
The 'miscellaneous' blunder in India's Rafale deal
Dassault Aviation's Rafale won the bid to supply the Indian Air Force with 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft. The multi-billion dollar 'deal of the century' has since languished over price negotiations. Rahul Bedi explains how 'miscellaneous' factors have posed a major hurdle in negotiating the Rafale deal. There is a delicious, albeit hugely expensive, irony involving the ongoing negotiations to procure 126 Dassault Rafale fighters that, in some aspects, parallels the purchase of six French Scorpene submarines…
India has come a long way in technology building: DRDO
Visakhapatnam: India has come a long way from being mere buyers of technology to a country which created its own technology with extensive scientific inputs of the indigenous origin, Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and DRDO chief Dr Avinash Chander said on Saturday. "We have come a long way since our Independence, from being mere buyers of technology to those who have made science and technology an important contributor for national development and societal transformation," Chander said. He was speaking at the 5th con…
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 …
Roselektronika looks to manufacture defence products in India
The Roselektronika holding plans to cooperate with India in the field of manufacturing of defence products in this country, its CEO Andrei Zverev told reporters on Wednesday. “We are negotiating with our Indian colleagues about the possible involvement of our holding in different kinds of programs to create modern defence products in India,” Zverev said. Zverev said that the holding plans to create joint ventures in India. “This is now the Indian side’s requirement – not the supply of finished high-tech products, but in particular,…
Tejas MK2 design phase complete , second Naval Lca Soon : DRDO
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has said that the country should synergise the competences available to tide over the oft-repeated time and cost overrun concerns. DRDO Director-General (Aero) Dr K Tamilmani told Express in an interview that any Indian initiative would be supported so as to build a robust eco-system. “If Indian R&D needs to be taken to the next level, we need the complete backing of private firms. We are making all efforts to make the private industry understand the complex nature of def…
NASA to launch satellite in collaboration with ISRO
US space agency NASA today said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India's ISRO. The NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar mission is a part of its plan to launch in the next seven years a series of satellite related to water and drought, the agency said. Among others include the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2); Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Follow-on and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission. "These satellite missions join…
ISRO's Crew Module Flight by May-June
ISRO is inching closer to launch its ambitious human space mission with the first experimental unmanned flight of the crew module on the newly developed Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III in May-June from Sriharikota, said Dr K Radhakrishnan, chairman ISRO and secretary, Department of Space. The GSLV-MK-III is being developed as a heavy-lift vehicle capable of placing satellites weighing up to 5,000 kg in geosynchronous orbit. “The experimental flight of GSLV Mark-III with a passive cryo stage will be flown to stu…
Gsat-14 enters its orbital home
India's 23rd geostationary communication satellite, Gsat-14, entered its orbital home at 8am on Thursday. The third orbit-raising manoeuvre was successfully executed with a 172-second firing from Isro's Master Control Facility at Hasan in Karnataka. With this, the spacecraft's nearest point to the earth, or perigee, is 35,462km and the farthest, or apogee, is 35,741km. After it entered its final orbital home, the cuboid-shaped spacecraft's east antenna was deployed at 9.18am and the west antenna at 11.30am An Isro offi…
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