ASTROSAT
ISRO's AstroSat detects over 600 gamma-ray bursts over 8 years India's AstroSat space telescope has detected over 600 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), marking the death of a massive star or merging of neutron stars. The detection is a significant milestone, demonstrating the continued undiminished performance of the Cadm...
28 Nov, 2023, 03.01 PM ISTIndia's PSLV-XL rocket has close links with Moon, Mars and the Sun Nearly 15 years after its first flight and on its 25th mission, the rocket code named PSLV-C57 is being used for another interplanetary mission - to study the Sun- by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
02 Sep, 2023, 11.01 AM ISTSankarasubramanian named Principal Scientist of ISRO's Aditya-L1 mission "The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the first Lagrange point, L1, of the Sun-Earth system," the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in a statement. A satellite around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuou...
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Market movers: HAL at ISRO launchpad; Dolly Khanna buys stake in Goa Carbon PSLV is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle. The vehicle was responsible for sending Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) and India's first space observatory, Astrosat into space.
11 Apr, 2022, 05.34 PM ISTIndian researchers discover three supermassive black holes The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laboratories to detect multiple accreting supermassive black holes and increases the possibility of detecting such occurrences.
27 Aug, 2021, 12.44 PM ISTIndia & Brazil opens a new chapter in space sector coop through Amazonia-1 launch Amazonia-1 is the first Earth Observation satellite to be completely designed, integrated, tested and operated by Brazil. The satellite will provide remote sensing images to observe and monitor deforestation, especially in the Amazonia region, as we...
28 Feb, 2021, 03.58 PM ISTIndian, US satellites find black hole that spins near maximum possible rates Relatively smaller black holes are exotic end states of massive stellar cores, said astronomers led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai.
01 Nov, 2018, 01.20 PM ISTISRO plans to launch India’s second space observatory The AstroSat-2 mission, which will help in observing distant celestial bodies, is meant to further the study of astronomy and astrophysics.
19 Feb, 2018, 11.42 AM ISTISRO eyes its 100th satellite "The 31 spacecrafts, including weather observation Cartosat-2 series satellite, will be launched by PSLV-C40," ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) director M Annadurai said today.
09 Jan, 2018, 04.42 PM IST- India eyes one rocket launch a month in 2018
Bengaluru, Nov 28 (IANS) India plans to have at least one rocket launch every month in 2018 from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to deploy satellites in orbit, said a top space official on Tuesday.
28 Nov, 2017, 09.02 PM IST - Astrosat, Chandra and Hubble jointly detect massive cosmic explosion
Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have simultaneously detected a massive coronal explosion on the nearest planet-hosting star 'Proxima Centauri', a t...
19 Jul, 2017, 07.17 PM IST Einstein's gravitational waves detected for the second time A LIGO has been set up, to detect the gravitational waves. It is a system of two identical detectors carefully constructed to detect incredibly tiny vibrations.
16 Jun, 2016, 07.47 PM ISTDMK chief praises ISRO for successful launch of ASTROSAT DMK President M Karunanidhi today congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation for the successful launch of ASTROSAT.
29 Sep, 2015, 03.15 PM ISTPSLV-C30 successfully launches ASTROSAT into the orbit A rocket, carrying seven satellites, including India's first space observatory, blasted off from Sriharikota.
28 Sep, 2015, 03.30 PM ISTASTROSAT, India's first astronomical mission, set for September 28 launch "The satellite is scheduled for launch on board the launch vehicle PSLV C-30, on Sept 28 morning 10 am," Director, Public Relations, ISRO told.
16 Sep, 2015, 05.46 PM ISTISRO Satellite Centre transports ASTROSAT to Sriharikota ASTROSAT has been transported to the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh for expected launch in September.
20 Aug, 2015, 04.11 PM ISTIndia to test reusable launch vehicle next month: ISRO ISRO chairman, A S Kiran Kumar said the vehicles would be landing first time in the ocean and the ultimate attempt is to make it land at an air-strip at Sriharikota.
15 Jun, 2015, 06.43 PM ISTIndia's dedicated astronomy satellite ASTROSAT fully assembled ASTROSAT, the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying distant celestial objects is now fully assembled, ISRO said.
19 May, 2015, 04.52 PM ISTISRO sets eyes on stars; plans a mini Hubble ISRO, which successfully launched a GSLV with indigenous cryogenic engine, would conduct an experimental launch of GSLV Mark III in June this year, Radhakrishnan said.
04 Apr, 2014, 09.11 PM ISTISRO plans over a dozen missions including Sun mission before 2020 ISRO has lined up over a dozen missions, including its first probe on the Sun, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said today.
28 Feb, 2014, 08.58 PM IST