SPACE MISSIONS

Ernakulam (Kerala), July 13 (ANI): Former NASA Astronaut Steve Lee Smith on lauded India’s achievements in space sector. He said that India has been very successful in space in the last 20 years, very well respected around the world.Steve Lee Smith,...

While addressing the India Space Congress (ISC) 2024 Inaugural day, ISRO Chief S Somanath announced that its next satellite GSAT-20 will possibly be launched by August. He further said, "Our next satellite GSAT-20 is ready to be launched and will po...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday achieved another success in the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) landing experiment (LEX). The third and final test in the series of LEX (03) was conducted at 07:10 IST at the Aeronautical Test Ra...

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Thursday said the day is not far when India will emerge as one of the major service providers in the world. Addressing the Indian Defspace Symposium 2024 here, General Chauhan said that space is c...

Gopichand Thotakura is poised to make history by becoming the second Indian citizen to travel to space. He will travel to space as part of the crew for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin's New Shephard-25 (NS-25) mission. The fligh...

The launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to carry NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) was on Monday (local time) postponed after a valve glitch in the upper stage of the rocket set...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on February 27, revealed the squad set to go to space as part of the Gaganyaan mission. The crew will have four astronauts, Group Captain P Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and ...

A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.Sp...

Come Saturday and Isro will perform the final manoeuvre to put India’s Aditya-L1 space probe into a halo orbit, the solar space observatory’s final destination some 1.5 million-km from Earth. This will be done by firing of a group of thrusters for a...

Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov on January 08 assured Russia’s assistance to Indian in its Gaganyaan mission and said that, “I am very much hopeful that we will continue to engage with each other on major missions that India is undertaking....

On January 11, 2024, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft accomplished the successful deployment of its 6-meter long magnetometer boom in space at Lagrange Point-1. This milestone occurred 132 days after the satellite's launch, while it was positioned in a halo...

On January 6th, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved the successful placement of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft into its designated orbit, situated approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Positioned at the L1 Lagrange point, thi...

Buoyed by the success of the Chandrayaan mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday set ambitious goals for ISRO, asking them to set up an Indian Space Station by 2035 and send the first Indian to the moon by 2040. Modi's directions came durin...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chaired a high-level meeting to assess the progress of India's Gaganyaan mission and to outline the future of India's space exploration programs. The Department of Space presented a comprehensive overview of the Gaga...

XPoSat (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) is India’s first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions. The spacecraft will carry two scientific payloads in a low earth orbit. The pri...

Following the triumph of Chandrayaan-3, Indian Space Research Organisation has emerged as a frontrunner in space technology. Right after Chandrayaan-3, ISRO launched the Aditya-L1 Mission to study the Sun in unprecedented detail. With a Venus missio...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully executed the Test Flight Abort Mission, for the Gaganyaan mission on Saturday after the first test flight was aborted at 8:45 am due to a problem in the engine ignition. Earlier today, ISRO brie...

Gaganyaan TV-D1 is “In-flight Abort Demonstration of Crew Escape System (CES)” at Mach number 1.2 with the newly developed Test Vehicle followed by Crew Module separation & safe recovery. Mission Objectives are - Flight demonstration and evaluation ...