The White House earlier said Russia has obtained a “troubling” emerging space-based weapon that can be used against US satellites, but is not operational yet. The Kremlin had rejected the reports as a ruse to shore up military support for Ukraine.
The DISHA satellites will study space weather, solar-terrestrial interactions and provide an advance warning on space based weather happenings and preventive actions can be taken.
Modi had arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a three-day visit to the country on Wednesday, his first beyond neighborhood since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gagangyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in India- Luxembourg Virtual Summit on Nov 19. PM Modi said, "I am happy that our space agency recently launched Luxembourgh's four satellites.
Cartosat-3 satellite is a third-generation agile advanced satellite having high-resolution imaging capability. The rocket is expected to lift off at 9.28 a.m.
They were launched on a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11.26 a.m. from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province.
Russia's carrier rocket launch: Russia successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket on Friday with a hydrometeorological satellite and 32 small satellites, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said. The rocket blasted off at 8.41 a.m. (local time) from the Vostochny spaceport in the Far Eastern Amur Region, it said in a statement.
According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Core Alone variant (PSLV-CA) will fly with the 380 kg Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite and 30 others together weighing 261.5 kg.
NASA kept the CubeSats about 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) away from InSight during the 300 million-mile (483 million-kilometer) journey to Mars.
It was the 292th mission of the Long March rocket series, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch will take place from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The PSLV rocket will blast off from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The images sent by these satellites, which can be used for surveillance and mapping border areas, are primarily used for tracking the movement of enemies both on land and sea
ISRO's GSAT-19 and the GSAT-11 satellites are potential game changers and can revolutionise communications by empowering a digital India and providing Internet services and streaming like never before.
After the successful launch of 104 satellites from a single rocket, India has emerged as a "key player" in a growing global commercial market for space - based surveillance and communication, world media commented on
India will today script the history by launching a record 104 satellites, including 101 foreign ones, into the earth's lower orbit from the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 125 km from here. The countdown for the
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is building a robotic spacecraft which will be outfitted with the latest tools and technologies to repair or refuel satellites currently in orbit. NASA has awarded a $127
Indian Space Reserch Organisation (ISRO) said today that it will launch a record 22 satellites in a single mission next month.
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