As the country rejoiced the successful placement of the ISRO lander — Vikram — on the moon’s uncharted South Pole, the agency’s chairman S Somanath on Thursday confirmed that its maiden solar mission ‘Aditya’ is in the works and will be ready for launch in September. In a brief address to […]
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah felicitates ISRO chief Somanath on Chandrayaan-3’s success
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday felicitated Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief S Somanath after the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon’s lunar south pole. The Chief Minister also extended his wishes to all the scientists and staff who contributed to the success of the mission while […]
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Chandrayaan-3: ISRO set to initiate Automatic Landing Sequence
Even as hours ticked down to the much-anticipated crowning moment of Chandrayaan-3 — the attempted soft landing on the moon’s uncharted South Pole — the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Wednesday said that it is all set to initiate the Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS). A post on ISRO’s official […]
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ISRO succesfully launches advanced navigation satellite NVS-01
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched its advanced navigation satellite NVS-01 from Sriharikota. The launch was carried out from Satish Shawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. NVS-01 is first of the India’s second-generation NavIC satellites that accompany enhanced features. ISRO informed in a tweet that the […]
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Slow subsidence up to 9 cm recorded in Joshimath in 7 months: ISRO report
Slow subsidence up to 9 cm is recorded in Joshimath town over a period of seven months, between April and November 2022, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellite-based report. National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO said several reports over the last few days highlighted the subsidence occurring in […]
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ISRO to develop Spatial Data Infrastructure geoportal for Ladakh: Union Minister Jitendra Singh
The government of the Union Territory of Ladakh has approached the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), a unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for developing “Spatial Data Infrastructure geoportal ‘Geo-Ladakh’ for UT-Ladakh, said Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Wednesday. In a written reply to […]
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In ISRO espionage case, SC cancels anticipatory bail, asks HC to reconsider
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the kerala-high-court” Kerala High Court order granting anticipatory bail to persons in connection with the 1994 ISRO espionage case relating to the framing of alleged scientist Nambi Narayanan. A bench headed by Justice MR Shah remitted the bail applications back to the kerala-high-court”Kerala […]
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ISRO successfully launch PSLV-C54 carrying 9 satellites
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday successfully launched PSLV-C54 rocket carrying EOS-06, also known as Oceansat-3, and 8 nanosatellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. PSLV-C54 was launched from First Launch Pad (FLP) Sriharikota spaceport at 11.56 am in a two-hour multi-orbit launch mission. The primary payload onboard PSLV-C54 was the EOS-06. It […]
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ISRO likely to launch Chandrayan-3 in June next year: ISRO chairman
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr S Somanath on Sunday said that it is likely to launch its Chandrayan-3 mission in June next year. Addressing a press conference, Somanath told the reporters that mission Chandrayaan-3 is almost ready to be launched in June of next year. “Chandrayaan-3 is almost […]
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Indian Railways installs ISRO-developed RTIS system for real-time train tracking
Indian Railways is installing a Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on locomotives “for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival and departure or run-through”, the Ministry of Railways said in a statement on Friday. “Real Time […]
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ISRO successfully tests Gaganyaan Low Altitude Escape Motor
In another important milestone in the Gaganyaan project, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out the test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of Crew Escape System, from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, said the officials on Wednesday. “The Crew Escape System (CES) takes away the Crew module of the Gaganyaan […]
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ISRO launches its new SSLV-D1 rocket from Sriharikota
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday launched its first new rocket the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) carrying Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-02) and a student-made satellite-AzaadiSAT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. To mark the country’s celebrations of “Azaadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, the SSLV, co-passenger satellite called […]
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About 60 startups registered with ISRO since unlocking of Indian space sector: Govt
Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that about 60 startups have registered with ISRO since the “unlocking” of the Indian Space sector recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and quite a few of them are dealing with projects related to space debris management The other startups’ proposals vary from nano-satellite, launch vehicles, […]
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Imaging satellites will now be owned by private entities as well, says ISRO Chairman Dr S Somanath
Under the Space Policy 2022, Imaging satellites will now be owned by private entities unlike before, when they were owned only by ISRO and Defence, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr. S Somanath on Saturday. He further informed that the small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) will be launched […]
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Centre intends to establish more research centres in country to support research of ISRO: Jitendra Singh
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States of America to jointly realise a satellite mission named ‘NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)’ for scientific studies of Earth, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh informed Lok Sabha in a written reply on Wednesday. The […]