ISRO conducting a hot-fire test of the CE-20 cryogenic engine for the LVM-3 at its test facility in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu. | Photo Credit: ISRO handout On February 21, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reported it had successfully completed human-rating the CE-20 rocket engine ahead of its use in an important test flight later … Read more
A view shows houses and buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza City, October 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel-Hamas war day 4 LIVE updates President Joe Biden is dispatching his top diplomat to Israel on an urgent mission to show U.S. support after major terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, the State Department said … Read more
India’s pioneering achievement in Chandrayaan-3‘s successful lunar landing at the southern pole establishes it as the first nation to attain this distinction. ISRO is “The Mastermind” behind the success. It has demonstrated India’s robust space research capabilities and dynamic technological growth to the world. That’s not all, it has also paved the way for a … Read more
Six menus comprising vegetarian and non vegetarian Indian food items are being prepared for the crew of the country’s first human spaceflight aboard the Gaganyaan. The crew of the first ever human mission from India will have a large variety of food to choose from which is being prepared by Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) … Read more
In order to ensure crew safety as part of the roadmap for Gaganyaan, ISRO will be conducting two unmanned ‘abort missions’, which will include one in September and the other in December. Gaganyaan will be the first manned flight of India to space in 2024, ISRO chairman S Somanath told IE. Somanath, who is also Secretary, … Read more
The rockets use powerful propulsion systems generating huge amounts of energy that overcome the Earth’s gravitational pull to lift heavy objects into space. On February 14, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the year’s first space mission — an earth observation satellite, EOS-04, along with two other smaller satellites. The space research agency used … Read more
The performance of the engine met the test objectives and the engine parameters were closely matching with the predictions during the entire duration of the test on Wednesday, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said. The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully conducted the qualification test of cryogenic engine for the Gaganyaan programme for a duration of … Read more
ISRO officials said that the first as well as the second waves of COVID-19 have impacted the Gaganyaan programme severely. ISRO Gaganyaan mission: India has been looking forward to its human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan for a few years now, and it is a race against time for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to launch … Read more
ISRO & NASA are already working together in various fields of Space and these include Human Space Flight, Earth observation, Mars and planetary exploration, Helio-Physics, and Commercial Space cooperation. (Representational image: ISRO) India is planning to launch astronauts soon from here onboard a modified GSLV MK III launch vehicle. The launch vehicle shall place the … Read more
Dr K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, complimented the L&T and ISRO teams for the maiden delivery as a ‘Diwali Gift’ to the country, and their hard work on realizing the flight hardware ahead of schedule. Notwithstanding the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on all sectors, Larsen & Toubro has once again delivered the first hardware, … Read more