Tag: Satellites

In historic flight, Indian rocket puts 'OneWeb' satellites into orbit
In historic flight, Indian rocket puts 'OneWeb' satellites into orbit

After the separation of 16 satellites, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S.Somanath said: "The satellite separation is a slow process. The remaining satellites will be separated and the data will come later."

  • Sunday, 23 October 2022
India's maiden Rs 56crore small rocket mission fails, two satellites unusable
India's maiden Rs 56crore small rocket mission fails, two satellites unusable

"All the stages performed normally. Both the satellites were injected. But the orbit achieved was less than expected, which makes it unstable," ISRO said in a very brief statement about the mission.

  • Sunday, 07 August 2022
Countdown to launch 31 satellites to begin on Thursday

Bengaluru: The countdown to launch 31 satellites, including three of India and 28 of six other countries, by ISRO on Friday morning from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh will begin on Thursday, an official said on Wednesday. “The countdown will begin on Thursday, 24 hours before the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C40) rocket carrying […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
India to resume satellite launches by December

Bengaluru: India will resume launching satellites in November or December, unfazed by the failure of its rocket in deploying a spare navigation satellite in the Earth’s lower orbit on August 31, said a top official on Friday. “We will resume the launches by November or December, with one of the remote sensing satellites though we […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
ISRO rocket lifts off with Cartosat, 30 other satellites

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): In yet another successful multiple satellite launch mission, India on Friday successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites from 14 countries. The rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s (PSLV) main cargo was India’s 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation with a […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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NASA atomic clock to help spacecraft navigate in deep space

Washington: NASA has activated an atomic clock that could enable spacecraft to safely navigate themselves in deep space rather than rely on the time-consuming process of receiving directions from Earth. Launched in June, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is now ready for its year-long tech demo, the US space agency said this week. Developed at […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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SpaceX Puts 60 New Starlink Internet Satellites Into Orbit

San Francisco: SpaceX has confirmed the successful deployment of a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. “Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted late on Wednesday. The launch came less than a week after the rocket builder sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on a Falcon 9 […]

  • Friday, 16 April 2021
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