ISRO General News and Updates

[Vamsi]

Pakka?

I read the parliament reply, Propulsion module & rover were fully assembled & ready, LSPT tests were successfully completed & Lander is in assembly stage. I think L110 & C-25 stages were also realised . But the problem is launching 2 GSLV-MK3'S in a very short span next year. Let's see what they will do.

 

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[Vamsi]

ISRO Venus Mission Shukrayaan-1 will be launched either in 2024 or 2026, will carry total of 14 science payloads including Indian and international payloas

 

[FalconZero]

I saw some members had reservations about the ISRO-OPPO deal, here's a neat video by GS you can watch it (4 mins), it's in hindi but english captions are available which are decent

He gives examples of previous deals with RealMe, Xiaomi with ISRO, the fact Navic enabled chips off arm are already on the devices of redmi series.

This particular deal was about 'broadcast' service of NAVIC. Broadcast is basically one way message to large group of devices which is very useful in disaster management, weather warning and especially for fishing vessels. Apart from that basic NAVIC services that's it. It was just a PR show, highlights the good work of ISRO and give the needed pr for company but some media houses who are worthless pigs have never done anything good to society just plunged at the nonexistent low hanging fruit and created the mess of fearmongering.

 

[Illusive]

When is the next planned launch, any activity in pvt space.

 

[sorcerer]

Union Minister Dr.Jitendra Singh says, ISRO has signed six agreements with four countries for launching foreign satellites during 2021-2023

132 Million Euros would be earned through launching of these foreign satellites on a commercial basis: Dr Jitendra Singh

The Minister says, from 1999 till date, a total of 342 foreign satellites from 34 countries have been successfully launched on board Indian Polar satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on a commercial basis


Posted On: 16 DEC 2021 3:36PM by PIB Delhi



Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said, ISRO has signed six agreements with four countries for launching foreign satellitesduring 2021-2023.


In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, DrJitendra Singh informed that about 132 Million Euros would be earned through launching of these foreign satellites on a commercial basis.


Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) through its commercial arm, New Space India Limited (NSIL), a Govt. of India company under Department of Space (DOS), has been launching satellites belonging to other countries on-board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), on a commercial basis.


NSIL as on date has signed six Launch Service Agreements with customers from four countries for launching foreign satellites into space on-board PSLV during 2021-2023.


A total number of 124 indigenous satellites have been put into Earth's orbit including 12 student satellites.


In another written reply to a similar question in the Rajya Sabha today, DrJitendra Singh informed that starting from 1999 till date, a total of 342 foreign satellites belonging to 34 countries have been successfully launched on board Indian Polar satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on a commercial basis.


The Minister said that through launching of foreign satellites on-board Indian launch vehicle, India has earned a Foreign Exchange revenue of approx. 35 Million USD and 10 Million Euros during last 3 years (i.e., 2019- 2021).The type of foreign satellites that were launched through Indian Launch Vehicle includes satellites primarily for Earth Observation, Scientific and Technology demonstration purposes.


Country wise breakup of the number of satellites that were launched is indicated below:

Sl. No	Country Name	No. of Satellites Launched		Sl. No.	Country Name	No. of Satellites Launched
1.	Algeria	4		18.	Japan	5
2.	Argentina	1		19.	Kazakhstan	1
3.	Australia	1		20.	Latvia	1
4.	Austria	3		21.	Lithuania	4
5.	Belgium	4		22.	Luxembourg	5
6.	Brazil	1		23.	Malaysia	1
7.	Canada	12		24.	Netherlands	3
8.	Chile	1		25.	Norway	1
9.	Colombia	1		26.	Republic of Korea	6
10.	Czech Republic	1		27	Singapore	8
11.	Denmark	2		28.	Slovakia	1
12.	Finland	3		29.	Spain	2
13.	France	4		30.	Switzerland	4
14.	Germany	11		31.	Turkey	1
15.	Indonesia	3		32.	UAE	1
16.	Israel	3		33.	United Kingdom	12
17.	Italy	5		34.	USA	226

 

[Vamsi]

Read entire thread. As he said Oppo will use ISROs name to further expand in Indian Market.

 

[Haldilal]

How?

How? How's the navic location of a device better than gps location? And please don't tell that with gps, they need to put in a new software to track because the bloatware in Chinese phones or any phone does that pretty well.

Ya'll Nibbiars Read this thread.

 

[Covfefe]

Ya'll Nibbiars Read this thread.

Read already. Goes round in circles on how we should promote Indian companies, 12 billion dollars investment that Chongs shouldn't take advantage of(weird), Oppo will be strongly entrenched in the Indian market due to this(hardly so, which company has offered a particular type of navigation system as it's value please tell me. Customer doesn't give a damn if it's GPS or Navic as long as Maps and all work fine)
Also, no answer on how it is any more dangerous than the situation at present? They already have your location data if you use their phone. They also have a bulk load of other info(media, contacts, email, banking details) if you use their phone or apps (which you most likely do).

 

[Vamsi]

Read already. Goes round in circles on how we should promote Indian companies, 12 billion dollars investment that Chongs shouldn't take advantage of(weird), Oppo will be strongly entrenched in the Indian market due to this(hardly so, which company has offered a particular type of navigation system as it's value please tell me. Customer doesn't give a damn if it's GPS or Navic as long as Maps and all work fine)
Also, no answer on how it is any more dangerous than the situation at present? They already have your location data if you use their phone. They also have a bulk load of other info(media, contacts, email, banking details) if you use their phone or apps (which you most likely do).

Col Bakshi doesn't say anything about our location data. What he says is that the oppo will use ISRO's name to enter more into our market. Yes, normal people doesn't give a damn which navigation system their phone uses, but even in the remote places of our country people knew about ISRO & and oppo can use ISRO's popularity to promote itself.

 

[Covfefe]

Col Bakshi doesn't say anything about our location data. What he says is that the oppo will use ISRO's name to enter more into our market. Yes, normal people doesn't give a damn which navigation system their phone uses, but even in the remote places of our country people knew about ISRO & and oppo can use ISRO's popularity to promote itself.

Please quote any single piece of marketing communication where they've offered/ shown isro's navigation system as a value offering. I have only seen stuff like battery life, camera specs, ram, and even made in India tag recently.

 

[THESIS THORON]

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[THESIS THORON]

so many things to research in aerospace sector, as it is booming, it will be better if startups do this job, so that isro, other labs can focus on their part other wise we will never be able to keep up with them.

 

[FalconZero]

Pretty horrendous state if true,

It is too well known that many satellites were launched by ISRO with 2 to 5 years lag in setting up of ground segments. The aborted GISAT-1 launch exposed the disconnect with user departments. The lid is now off as the termination of funding and projects by user departments and security agencies a couple of months ago has put a question mark on the continuity in service of about of 6000 engineers beyond March 2022 . According to available information, these enginners, working on adhoc basis, have got a temporary lease of life due to funding available from Government of India’s consolidated fund. In the meanwhile all ISRO launches have been put on the backburner and there is a strong likelihood that under the prevailing cicumstances, senior engineers and scienstists would be left with no option but to seek voluntary retirement.

>engineers are working on ad hoc basis

Absolute state of ISRO. Downfall of the ISRO is one of the biggest failure of this government, i have zero faith in the timeline of next year.

Only private players are our only hope.
Source,

Who Shrunk ISRO

Lalit Shastri Newsroom24x7 has published a series of exclusive stories exposing how leadership deficit in ISRO has retarded the progress of India’s space programme in recent years. We have al…

newsroom24x7.com

 

[Vamsi]

Pretty horrendous state if true,


>engineers are working on ad hoc basis

Absolute state of ISRO. Downfall of the ISRO is one of the biggest failure of this government, i have zero faith in the timeline of next year.

Only private players are our only hope.
Source,

Who Shrunk ISRO

Lalit Shastri Newsroom24x7 has published a series of exclusive stories exposing how leadership deficit in ISRO has retarded the progress of India’s space programme in recent years. We have al…

newsroom24x7.com

Generally I don't believe Lalit Sastry, he is Burkha Dutt of Aerospace Journalists. But about ISRO, what he have said may be actually right,but we don't know. We will wait for further more information.

 

[FalconZero]

Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has begun forming its directorates that will be located in Bengaluru & Ahmedabad.
@GoenkaPk
says it'll be operational by the end of this quarter.
@isro
chief Sivan says units at different cities will help.

 

[FalconZero]

Crossposting from r/isro,
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COVID19 cases surge in SDSC-SHAR, fourteen new cases including two doctors and twelve employees. Delays in launch related activities is expected.


COVID19
Regional media reports suggests many Coronavirus cases have been detected in Sriharikota since December 2021 among staff and their family members. At least a 14 people are infected and being treated at home quarantine. SHAR officials issued special guidelines and tests are being conducted on the remaining employees.
Per reports, satellite launch scheduled to take place in the last week of this month, is likely to be postponed due to corona infection in employees and doctors.
Sources:

• https://tv9telugu.com/andhra-prades...t-positive-in-isro-housing-colony-610843.html
• https://www.prajasakti.com/saraiiharaikaootalaoo-14-mamdaikai-kaoovaida-paaajaitaiva
• https://www.indiaherald.com/Breakin...sted-corona-positive-in-shar-nellore-district

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We lost 30+ people and thousands of people got covid at various isro facilities includings like of SDSC-SHAR, VSSC, suffered terribly.

Some of the comments by people who were working at SHAR suggest that there were like 3 ventilators for a group of 4000 people, absolute state of DoS.

Second Covid wave sweeps ISRO's rocket station, 350 new cases reported in Sriharikota

CHENNAI: The prestigious Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota has become the latest casualty of the second Covid wave that has wreaked havoc across

www.newindianexpress.com

This was from last year, second wave.

One of the most important institutions in the country and still no value to the people working there.

CY-3 already delayed from 2020 to 2023, this part is a bit uncertain because either K. Sivan f'd up or there was a retardation from the side of media.

 

[FalconZero]

ISRO targets Gaganyaan launch before Independence day, Chandrayaan 3 by mid-2023

The chairperson also gave some updates. “Chandrayaan-3 design changes incorporating and testing has seen huge progress. The mission could be launched by middle of next year,” he said.

indianexpress.com

ISRO targets Gaganyaan launch before Independence day, Chandrayaan 3 by mid-2023

“If you look at the immediate task at hand this year, we have many missions to execute. Some of these are launch of EOS-4 and EOS-6 on board PSLV. Launch of EOS-02 on board maiden flight of SSLV. Many test flights for Crew Escape System of Gaganyaan and Launch of the first unmanned mission of Gaganyaan. In addition, we also have Chandrayaan-03, Aditya Ll, XpoSat, IRNSS and technology demonstration missions with advanced indigenously developed technologies on-board,”

There is a directive to launch the first unmanned mission before the 75th anniversary of India’s independence (August 15, 2022) and all the stake-holders are putting their best effort to meet the schedule. I am sure that we will be able to meet this target, Sivan said in the letter.

Also there's some confusion in regards to CY-3 schedule. It's hilarious and astonishing that DRDO the agency responsible for way more strategic projects is so open than a civilian body like ISRO.

Here's another source, can't hear what he is saying but tweet says this,

 

[Vamsi]

ISRO targets Gaganyaan launch before Independence day, Chandrayaan 3 by mid-2023

The chairperson also gave some updates. “Chandrayaan-3 design changes incorporating and testing has seen huge progress. The mission could be launched by middle of next year,” he said.

indianexpress.com

Also there's some confusion in regards to CY-3 schedule. It's hilarious and astonishing that DRDO the agency responsible for way more strategic projects is so open than a civilian body like ISRO.

Here's another source, can't hear what he is saying but tweet says this,
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The confusion is because of the letter by Sivan to the media. In that letter he mentioned CY-3 launch in mid of next year. My guess is that ,the letter was drafted last year and guy who did it might wrote it wrong.
I say let's wait until the annual report is out or atleast for the 1st launch this year.