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Topic: Sriharikota

India’s first semi-cryogenic rocket launch deferred 3rd time in 2 weeks. Here’s why

The much-anticipated launch of India’s pioneering semi-cryogenic engine-powered rocket, Agnibaan SOrTeD, is put on hold due to unresolved ‘technical issues’. New launch date yet to be announced.

How ISRO’s PSLV Integration Facility launch at Sriharikota will help India’s space ecosystem

First of 3-part series looks at new facility opened by PM Modi Tuesday. It is expected to enable quicker assembly, integration of India’s trustiest rocket & smaller rockets at launchpad.

Sriharikota, we have a problem. The ground is eroding

ISRO’s spaceport island has lost over 100 metres of shoreline to erosion in the last 4 years. Scientists may now have to zero in on a new launchpad for India’s space ambitions.

‘Failure-based’: ISRO chief says Chandrayaan-3 will do it differently to land on moon surface

As the third installment of India’s moon mission kicks off on 14 July, all eyes are on whether it can put a lander on the moon.

Successful test flight of SSLV-D2 gives ISRO a new, low-cost rocket

The vehicle successfully placed its three payloads in circular orbits. EOS-07 is an ISRO satellite, while the other two – Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 – were passenger satellites.

India’s 1st private launchpad for Chennai startup Agnikul Cosmos inaugurated at Sriharikota

The firm is targetting a launch by end of December; the flight will feature the country’s first fully 3D-printed rocket engine.

All about LVM3: ISRO’s history-making rocket that placed 36 satellites in orbit

The LVM3 launched its first commercial mission on Sunday just after midnight, placing 36 payloads into orbit, making it ISRO’s heaviest payload to date on its heaviest rocket

Indira to Rahul — Why every Gandhi loves Ashok Gehlot, the perfect Congressman

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, unlike his deputy Sachin Pilot, played down Kota infant deaths. Instead, he preferred to praise Priyanka Gandhi’s comments on Yogi.

ISRO successfully launches another spy in the sky, boosts India’s surveillance capability

ISRO launched the RISAT-2BR1 satellite, the fourth in the RISAT radar military recon series that will help monitor terrorist activities. 

ISRO to launch advanced GSAT-7A satellite for IAF and Army today

The GSAT-7A satellite can detect flying military aircraft and distinguish between friendly and hostile aircraft as well.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.