NEW DELHI: In a boost for India’s Solar mission, Isro’s spacecraft Aditya L1 has started sending data that is shedding light on the mysteries of solar wind as the Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload on board the satellite has “commenced its operations and is performing normally”, an Isro statement said.ASPEX, comprising two cutting-edge … Read more
Bengaluru: Early on Tuesday, Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (Istrac) scientists in Bengaluru completed the second Earth-bound manoeuvre of Aditya-L1 spacecraft.“Istrac/Isro ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km,” Isro said.The next maneuvre — third of the five … Read more
BENGALURU: Isro has achieved a new milestone, graduating from the S-band telemetry and command regime used for communication with its space modules to a high throughput X-band frequency for Aditya-L1, India’s first solar space observatory that completed the first of five Earth-bound manoeuvres at 11.40am Sunday.So far, Isro had used X-band only for payload data … Read more
BENGALURU: Pragyan had crawled eight metres on the Moon as of Friday at the rate of 1cm per second after the Chandrayaan-3 rover began leaving its tracks in lunar surface dust on Thursday. All systems were go on Friday.The first images of the rover rolling out of the lander and over the ramp, released Friday, … Read more
BENGALURU: When the Sun sets on Wednesday, look at the Moon: India may be up there. Four years after Chandrayaan-2 crash-landed on the lunar surface, India is at the cusp of making history by landing a probe in the polar region of the Moon. If all goes well, Vikram, the Chandrayaan-3 lander, will touchdown a … Read more
NEW DELHI: While thousands witnessed the historic launch of India’s third Moon mission, an Indigo passenger flying from Chennai to Dhaka had a special view. He not only enjoyed the view from his window seat of Chandrayaan-3 as it soared majestically but also captured it.Friday saw the historic launch of Chandrayaan-3 on-board LVM3-M4 rocket which … Read more
SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Saturday successfully placed two Singapore satellites — TeLEOS-2 (a synthetic aperture radar satellite) and Lumelite-4 (a technology demonstration nano-satellite) — in their desired orbits. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C55), which carried these satellites, also carried out scientific experiments with seven payloads attached to its PS4 upper … Read more
NEW DELHI: Just days after the launch of India’s first privately built rocket Vikram-S, the country’s first private launch pad has been opened at Sriharikota. Space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos on Monday announced the opening of the launch pad, designed and operated by it. The facility was inaugurated on November 25 by Isro chairman S Somanath. … Read more