Astronomy
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- Indian Moon Mission Saved
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- Multi-tasking Satellite Deployed By 50th Ils Proton
A Proton rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan 3 April ,2009 and deposited a versatile European communications satellite into orbit, beginning a 15-year mission that will introduce a state-of-the-art service to beam live television to cell phones, iPods...
- India Launches Italian Payload
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- India Successfully Launched Gslv Mark-iii
India took a giant leap forward toward its ambitious goal of sending humans into space by launching an unmanned crew capsule with a powerful rocket. ISRO [Indian Space Research Organization] launched the 630-ton rocket from its facility at Sriharikota...
Astronomy
Indian rocket launches Israeli-built spy satellite
India launched a closely-guarded Israeli-built radar spy satellite Monday to begin gathering valuable intelligence data from a 342-mile-high perch above the planet, regardless of lighting and weather conditions.
The country's 15th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ignited at 0115 GMT and leapt from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India's east coast. Liftoff of the 144-foot-tall rocket was at 6:45 a.m. local time.
The Indian Space Research Organization, which oversaw the launch, declared the flight a success on its Web site.
The PSLV was carrying a secretive satellite fitted with a dish-like radar antenna designed to see through darkness, clouds and camouflage, Spaceflight Now reported Saturday.
The satellite, named RISAT 2, weighs about 660 pounds at launch and was built by Israel Aerospace Industries. It is designed for an orbit with an altitude of about 342 miles and inclined 41 degrees to the equator.
The new satellite provides an important new capability for Indian intelligence services. Previous Indian satellites, including a high-resolution observer launched last April, carried optical imaging sensors that were hampered by darkness and bad weather conditions on the ground
- Foreign Universities' Satellites To Be Launched By Isro
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch foreign universities into space.Five months after ISRO launched India's first student satellite " Anusat" on April 20 , it will place in orbit four university satellites in September.They...
- Indian Moon Mission Saved
India's only satellite Chandrayaan -I orbiting moon came close to overheating and failure but scientists improvised to save it. Last month the satellite lost a critical instrument called the star sensor. The sensor helps the $80-million satellite...
- Multi-tasking Satellite Deployed By 50th Ils Proton
A Proton rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan 3 April ,2009 and deposited a versatile European communications satellite into orbit, beginning a 15-year mission that will introduce a state-of-the-art service to beam live television to cell phones, iPods...
- India Launches Italian Payload
On Monday, the Italian AGILE satellite was launched into space on top of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. This was the first commercial launch that India's space program has ever conducted. Foreign spacecrafts have been launched with this...
- India Successfully Launched Gslv Mark-iii
India took a giant leap forward toward its ambitious goal of sending humans into space by launching an unmanned crew capsule with a powerful rocket. ISRO [Indian Space Research Organization] launched the 630-ton rocket from its facility at Sriharikota...