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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Topic: Sriharikota

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.

ISRO’s SSLV-D2 rocket takes off with 3 satellites from Sriharikota

The launch has put ISRO’s earth observation satellite EOS-07 and two co-passenger satellites Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 into a 450 km circular orbit around the Earth.

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

ISRO plans to launch Brazilian satellite, 3 Indian payloads on 28 February

ISRO's first mission for 2021 will have Amazonia-1, Brazil's first earth observation satellite, as primary payload and India's Anand, Satish Dhawan satellite and UNITYsat as co-passengers.

ISRO launches Earth observation satellite EOS-01, 9 other satellites in 1st mission of 2020

PSLV-C49 lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Saturday at the end of a 26-hour countdown and injected EOS-01 and 9 customer satellites into the orbit.

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.

On Camera

Mamata Shankar stuck in Dark Ages. Gen Z showing India there’s no one way to wear a saree

In an interview with Anandabazar Patrika Shankar waxed eloquent about her many objections to the pallu not covering the bosom area of Gen Z women. She called them ‘women of the street’.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Taiwan reports Chinese military activity around the island

Taiwan has detected a total of 301 Chinese military aircraft and 165 Chinese naval vessels so far in 2024.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.