Among the recommendations, Trai suggested there shall be a separate satellite earth station gateway (SESG) license under the Indian Telegraph Act, the SESG license will not form part of the Unified License (UL), and the service area for the license shall be at a national level. Unified License implies that a customer can get all types of telecom services from a unified licence operator.
November 29, 2022Satellite imagery is used to show annual water storage cycle at Stanley Reservoir, Tamil Nadu.
January 31, 2022India presently has three fully operational rockets -- the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and two GSLV variants.
August 12, 2021About seven minutes into its launch at 5.43 a.m. the Indian rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F10) encountered problems.
August 12, 2021Addressing the inaugural session of a symposium on 'Human Spaceflight and Exploration - Present Challenges and Future Trends,' Sivan said the Gaganyaan mission not only aims at India's maiden human flight to space but also setting up a new space station for 'continuous space human presence'.
January 22, 2020The workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, on its 50th mission, PSLV-C48, is scheduled to lift off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 3:25 pm today, ISRO said.
December 11, 2019According to government sources, the satellite which was hit was a micro-satellite launched by the ISRO on January 24 this year.
March 27, 2019The launch is subject to weather conditions as cyclone Gaja is expected to cross the Tamil Nadu coast on November 15.
November 13, 2018In a bid to understand Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow cover and permafrost, NASA on Saturday successfully launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2.
September 16, 2018Venting strong discontentment over the delay in establishment of the proposed satellite centre of AIIMS at Balasore, the Congress today held a protest meeting here. Former union minister Srikant Jena lambasted the government at the centre alleging the much hyped dream project , a world class health care facilities in north India has been virtually shelved …
Continue reading "Cong protest over delayed satellite setup"
January 18, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated ISRO and its scientists on the successful launch of 31 satellites in a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and said the achievement will benefit the nation’s citizens, farmers and fishermen. Taking to Twitter shortly after the PSLV-C40 took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Modi said …
Continue reading "As India launches 31 satellites, PM lauds ISRO’s ‘glorious achievements’"
January 12, 2018In yet another display of its growing prowess in space exploration, India on Friday successfully launched 31 satellites in a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. In the first space mission of 2018, the 42nd flight of the 44.4-metre tall PSLV-C40 carrying the 710-kg Cartosat-2 series satellite took off from the Satish …
Continue reading "ISRO successfully launches 100th satellite on board PSLV-C40"
January 12, 2018Russia has failed to place a meteorological satellite into the targeted orbit, state space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. “Communication with the spacecraft could not be established during the first planned session due to its absence in the targeted orbit,” the agency said in the statement, without giving details. Earlier in the day, Roscosmos announced …
Continue reading "Russia fails to place satellite into orbit"
November 28, 2017Japan on Tuesday successfully launched the fourth and final satellite that makes up its terrestrial positioning network system, which will improve the current GPS services and help create a better communications system during a disaster. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched a Japanese H-IIA rocket with the Michibiki-4 communications satellite …
Continue reading "Japan launches latest satellite of positioning system"
October 10, 2017The Indian navigation satellite IRNSS-1H stuck inside a rocket’s heat shield — together weighing around 2.4-tonnes — now tumbling in outer space, is expected to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere in a couple of months. However, there may not be any impact on the ground, said a senior official of the Indian space agency. “The satellite …
Continue reading "Satellite, heat shield of Indian rocket to re-enter in 40-60 days"
September 5, 2017The non-separation of the heat shield of the PSLV, which trapped within itself the navigation satellite and resulted in a failed mission on Thursday, could be due to failure of component quality or quality checks, not a design failure, space technology experts said. “The PSLV rocket has been successful for the past several years. So …
Continue reading "‘Indian rocket failure not due to design fault’"
September 2, 2017It was a black Thursday for Indian space programme as it suffered a serious setback after its workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) failed to deliver India’s eighth navigation satellite in its intended orbit. The 1,425 kg Indian Regional Navigation Satellite-1H (IRNSS-1H), which was launched at 7 p.m. on board the PSLV, was declared …
Continue reading "Indian rocket fails to launch navigation satellite"
September 1, 2017