ISRO’s second PSLV mission failure in a row comes as global launch services become more competitive, with SpaceX’s reusable rocket and China nearing 100 launches a year.
‘There might be some questions as to the feasibility of launching through ISRO after two back-to-back failures of PSLV,' said Ajey Lele, deputy director general at MP-IDSA.
Despite the Space Policy of 2023, redefining ISRO's role and encouraging it to step away from commercial launches, the space organisation was still not able to meet its goal for 2025.
In the early 1990s, the US actively worked to block India’s access to cryogenic engine technology. Today, a US private company has approached ISRO to launch its satellite.
TakeMe2Space, the newest kid on the startup block, is creating a stir. Its AI-inference model allows satellites to not just collect data but also make sense of it in space.
On 10 October 2003, India's then-President APJ Abdul Kalam addressed the memebers of the ISRO community recalling his association and the various successful missions.
Mission, led by Bengaluru's Raman Research Institute with ISRO's UR Rao Satellite Centre, will explore polarisation & timing of X-rays from some of universe's most extreme objects.
Test flight at Sriharikota to last just over 8 minutes. It will check deceleration systems, parachute deployment, and structural integrity of crew module after separation from spacecraft.
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