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The Central Tool Room and Training Centre (CTTC), Bhubaneswar, has signed an agreement with ISRO for technology transfer and a contract for supply of spacecraft component

A group of 20 school students from Odisha got a rare opportunity to visit and know about operations of the Space Applications Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad

Few hours after ISRO successfully launched GSLV Mk III rocket from Sriharikota, which separated an unmanned crew module at an altitude of around 126 km, an Indian Coast Guard ship recovered the three-tonne weighing module, which had safely descended in the Bay of Bengal off Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The cryogenic engine for the latest GSLV Mark III rocket capable of carrying heavier payloads upto four tonnes, is expected to be ready within two years, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said here on Thursday

Taking its baby steps towards realising India's ambition to send humans into space, ISRO on Thursday successfully tested the atmospheric re-entry of a crew module after its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III blasted off from here

Saluting India's space scientists after its Mars mission created history, an elated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the country has achieved the "near impossible" and prevailed though the "odds were stacked against us"

In a major security breach, the website of the Indian space agency's commercial arm Antrix Corporation has been hacked, a senior official admitted on Sunday

Chennai: An Indian rocket standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing around 320 tonnes is being readied for the country’s first commercial satellite launch of 2015. The rocket will carry five British satellites together weighing around 1,440 kg, said a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). “The countdown for today’s night launch of PSLV-XL […]

Chennai: Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) XL variant will launch five British satellites on Friday night, said an Indian space agency official. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said the Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) at its meeting on yesterday has given the go ahead for the July 10 night rocket launch. According […]

Sriharikota: The Indian space agency is set to test its sophisticated, indigenously-built, Multi-Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time, said a senior official. “The MOTR designed and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV […]

Chennai: India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on March 28, with the country’s space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an official said on Thursday. “The process of integrating the IRNSS-1D (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) is underway and it is expected to […]

Bengaluru/Chennai: A telemetry glitch has forced the Indian space agency ISRO to defer the launch of the fourth regional navigation satellite scheduled for March 9 from its spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. “Launch of the fourth Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1D) onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C27) scheduled for March 9 has been postponed […]

President Pranab Mukherjee today congratulated scientists at ISRO for the successful launch of the GSLV-D5 through use of indigenous cryogenic technology, saying that the feat had taken India to "new heights"

Chennai: Distinguished scientist M.Y.S.Prasad, who is director of the India space agency's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, has been awarded the Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award for 2014-15, the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) announced Saturday.

Surya Prakash Mishra, a youth from the backward Koraput district has brought laurels to the State by cracking the all-India level entrance to get admission into the prestigious Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvanthapuram.