Tag: Isro Chairman

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) transferred Tapan Misra, the director of Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre (SAC), to the organisation’s headquarters in Bengaluru; speculations are doing rounds in national media about a conspiracy to prevent the scientist from becoming the next ISRO chairman. A directive issued by ISRO chairman K Sivan […]

Bengaluru: India will soon launch a dedicated space and science television channel to make their benefits reach people across the country, a top official said on Sunday. “Within the next three to four months, there will be a television channel launched to reach even the rural parts of India on how space programme can benefit […]

New Delhi: India is to launch Aditya-L1, its first mission to study the sun, in 2020, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said on Thursday. “The aim of the mission is to keep a permanent eye on the sun without any disturbance. Aditya-L1 is meant to observe the solar corona,” Sivan told media […]

Chennai: The insertion of India’s spacecraft to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, into the lunar orbit was a tense 30 minute operation, said ISRO Chairman K. Sivan. “It was tense 30 minute operation. The tension and anxiety kept on building as the clock ticked. It was a great relief and joy when the Chandrayaan-2 was put into […]

Chennai: India will launch its advanced cartography satellite, Cartosat-3, towards the end of October or early November, said K.Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). “The next launch will be cartography satellite Cartosat-3. The launch will be towards the end of October or early November this year,” Sivan told IANS. He said Cartosat-3 will be […]

Bengaluru: The Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module has been located on the Lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, ISRO chairman K Sivan said Sunday. “Yes, we have located the lander on the Lunar surface. It must have been a hard-landing,” Sivan told PTI. Asked if the lander was ‘damaged’ during the ‘hard-landing,’ he said, […]

Bhubaneswar: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr K Sivan is scheduled to attend the 8th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Sivan will address the students of IIT, Bhubaneswar in the community centre of the institute at Argul, Jatni. He will attend the function as the chief guest, […]