ISRO General News and Updates

[Karthi]

Does India have the capability to launch put satellites into space on domestically-produced rockets? If so, where is the launch pad? Does India have any plans to construct a launch pad?

Are you traveled back from stone age bro ??

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Come on people, the person could be a noob what most commoners on the planet are. Stop roasting him.

 

[ezsasa]

Does India have the capability to launch put satellites into space on domestically-produced rockets? If so, where is the launch pad? Does India have any plans to construct a launch pad?

Others have answered to your question.

If you have anymore of such questions, feel free to ask in appropriate thread.

You can tag me, I don’t mind answering.

 

[Karthi]

Come on people, the person could be a noob what most commoners on the planet are. Stop roasting him.

May be he is acting like a noob he is smart enough to create an account in DFI .

 

[BangaliBabu]

May be he is acting like a noob he is smart enough to create an account in DFI .

Another yellow bot masquerading, maybe. This time from the ChingChong Embassy of USA.

 

[BangaliBabu]

Does India have the capability to launch put satellites into space on domestically-produced rockets? If so, where is the launch pad? Does India have any plans to construct a launch pad?

We use Gobar Gas and Rahul Gandhi for rocket fuel.

Our launch pad is in the Lutyens, but unfortunately the brother-sister duo there cling onto our aspirations.

End result is, the rocket doesn't leave the launch pad.

We're planning to build a launch pad in Kashmir so that we can launch satellites and stone-pelters into space in one go. If need be, the UNSC, UNHRC, Uyghurs, Xitler, Chinese bots, Porkies and you, can enjoy being launched into outer space too.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

No guarantee for this either.

 

[Haldilal]

Ya'll Niggas The Methane LOX Engines.

 

[Karthi]

ISRO's Scramjet Research Vehicle previously known HAVA. (Hypersonic Air Breathing Vehicle with Air frame integrated system ).

It is a lifting body hypersonic vehicle integrated with scramjet engine, boosted by ADMIRE booster to an altitude of 44 km and glide down to 25 km altitude with a Mach number of 6. The objective is to develop accelerating flight of a hypersonic vehicle with scramjet engine power from Mach 6 to Mach 7 in 250 seconds at constant dynamic pressure.

The data base generated can be used for the design and development of a Two-Stage-to-Orbit (TSTO) vehicle, powered by air breathing combined cycle engine. Isrosene is considered as fuel for SRV.

Look like a completely Reusable vehicle , Scramjet vehicle on top of ADMIRE rocket.

 

[Karthi]

India’s first Earth-imaging satellite startup raises $5 million; first launch planned for later this year.

Bengaluru-based Pixxel is getting ready to launch its first Earth imaging satellite later this year, with a scheduled mission aboard a Soyuz rocket. The roughly one-and-a-half-year-old company is moving quickly, and today it’s announcing a $5 million seed funding round to help it accelerate even more. The funding is led by Blume Ventures, Lightspeed India Partners, and growX ventures, while a number of angel investors participated. This isn’t Pixxel’s first outside funding: It raised $700,000 in pre-seed money from Techstars and others last year. But this is significantly more capital to invest in the business, and the startup plans to use it to grow its team, and to continue to fund the development of its Earth observation constellation. The goal is to fully deploy said constellation, which will be made up of 30 satellites, by 2022. Once all of the company’s small satellites are on orbit, the Pixxel network will be able to provide globe-spanning imaging capabilities on a daily basis.

The startup claims that its technology will be able to provide data that’s much higher quality when compared to today’s existing Earth-imaging satellites, along with analysis driven by PIxxel’s own deep learning models, which are designed to help identify and even potentially predict large problems and phenomena that can have impact on a global scale. Pixxel’s technology also relies on very small satellites (basically the size of a beer fridge) that nonetheless provide a very high-quality image at a cadence that even large imaging satellite networks that already exist would have trouble delivering. The startup’s founders, Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal, created the company while still in the process of finishing up the last year of their undergraduate studies. The founding team took part in Techstars’ Starburst Space Accelerator last year in LA.

 

[scatterStorm]

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Did I just read, Nuclear engines. This is not new concept, but if we implement these, it would be a game changer.

 

[Adrian Corvus]

Are there any plans for ISRO to launch a mission to collect asteroid sample?
Also does ISRO have any plans to produce ion thrusters?

 

[Haldilal]

Are there any plans for ISRO to launch a mission to collect asteroid sample?
Also does ISRO have any plans to produce ion thrusters?

Here you go Nigga

ISRO to work on electric propulsion system: Chairman

On the status of inter-planetary mission, Kumar said the space agency had two approved missions - "Aditya" and "Chandrayaan II."

m.economictimes.com

ISRO plans to probe asteroids with DAWN-like spacecraft

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now planning to do research on asteroids, a mission similar to NASA's DAWN spacecraft, according to ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar.

zeenews.india.com

 

[ezsasa]

Are there any plans for ISRO to launch a mission to collect asteroid sample?
Also does ISRO have any plans to produce ion thrusters?

For the second query.

https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/tenders/pteoi-10.pdf

 

[Assassin 2.0]

Does India have the capability to launch put satellites into space on domestically-produced rockets? If so, where is the launch pad? Does India have any plans to construct a launch pad?

Yes
India breaks world record with simultaneous launch of 104 satellites

. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) blasted off from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 10:58 p.m. EST (0358 GMT on Feb.Feb 15, 2017

India breaks world record with simultaneous launch of 104 satellites | DW | 15.02.2017

India has successfully launched 104 satellites from a single rocket, setting a world record. Most of the orbiting hardware was made up of nano-satellites; the smallest weighing just over a kilogram.

www.google.com

 

[Karthi]

Chandrayaan-2 Completes A Year Around Moon, Enough Fuel For 7 Years: ISRO

India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 completed one year in orbit around the moon on Thursday and all instruments are currently performing well and there is adequate onboard fuel to keep it operational for about seven more years, space agency ISRO said. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20, exactly one year ago.

“Though the soft-landing attempt (of the lander carrying the rover) was not successful, the orbiter, which was equipped with eight scientific instruments, was successfully placed in the lunar orbit. The orbiter completed more than 4,400 orbits around the Moon and all the instruments are currently performing well,” the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The agency in a statement said the spacecraft was healthy and the performance of subsystems normal. “The orbiter is being maintained in 100 +/- 25 km polar orbit with periodic orbit maintenance (OM) maneuvers. So far, 17 OMs are carried out since achieving 100 km lunar orbit on 24th September 2019. There is adequate onboard fuel to remain operational for about seven years,” it added. Chandrayaan-2 mission was India’s first attempt to make a soft-landing of a rover on the unchartered South Pole of the lunar surface.

The scientific payloads, including high resolution camera, onboard the oribter for mapping the lunar surface and study the exosphere (outer atmosphere) of the Moon. The city-headquartered ISRO said raw data from the payloads have been downloaded at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) during the year. Public data release was planned by end of this year, after validation by a formal peer review, it said adding the first-year observations from Chandrayaan-2 demonstrate the in-orbit performance of payloads, strongly indicating its ability to contribute significantly to lunar science. “The anticipated long life of this orbiter can contribute much to the current resurgence of interest among the global scientific community for a sustained presence on the Moon,” the space agency said.

Chandrayaan-2 was launched to further expand the knowledge about the moon through a detailed study of its topography, mineralogy, surface chemical composition, thermo-physical characteristics and atmosphere, leading to a better understanding of the origin and evolution of the moon. India’s first mission to the Moon Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, had given clear evidence on the extensive presence of surface water and the indication for subsurface polar water-ice deposits.

 

[SavageKing456]

Here you go Nigga

ISRO to work on electric propulsion system: Chairman

On the status of inter-planetary mission, Kumar said the space agency had two approved missions - "Aditya" and "Chandrayaan II."

m.economictimes.com

ISRO plans to probe asteroids with DAWN-like spacecraft

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now planning to do research on asteroids, a mission similar to NASA's DAWN spacecraft, according to ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar.

zeenews.india.com

Bellatrix aerospace has already developed microwave electrothermal thruster

 

[Assassin 2.0]

 

[Karthi]

India’s ASTROSAT makes rare discovery.

ASTROSAT, Indias first multi- wavelength satellite observatory, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is 9.3 billion( Almost near the edge of the universe) light-years away from Earth, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said on Monday.

A release from the Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics said a global team led by IUCAA scientists have achieved the major breakthrough.

“Indias first multi-wavelength satellite, which has five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes working in tandem, AstroSat, has detected extreme-UV light from a galaxy, called AUDFs01, 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth,”.

The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha, associate professor of astronomy at the IUCAA, and published on August 24 by ‘Nature Astronomy’, the release said.

This team comprised scientists from India, France, Switzerland, USA, Japan and The Netherlands.

Saha and his team observed the galaxy, which is located in the Hubble Extreme Deep field, through AstroSat.

These observations lasted for more than 28 hours in October 2016, the release stated.

But it took nearly two years since then to carefully analyse the data to ascertain that the emission is indeed from the galaxy. Since UV radiation is absorbed by Earths atmosphere, it has to be observed from space, it said.

Earlier, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a significantly larger than UVIT (UV imaging telescope), did not detect any UV emission (with energygreater than 13.6 eV) from this galaxy because it is too faint, it said.

AstroSat/UVIT was able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise in the UVITdetector is much less than the ones on HST,” said the release quoting Saha.

Saha said they knew it would be an uphill task to convince the international community that UVIT has recorded extreme-UV emission from this galaxy when more powerful HST has not.

Dr Somak Raychaudhury, Director of IUCAA, said, “This is a very important clue to how the dark ages of the universe ended and there was light in the universe.

“We need to know when this started, but it has been very hard to find the earliest sources of light. I am very proud that my colleagues have made such an important discovery.”

 

[Varun2002]

Slightly good news. Two launches by year end, SSLV-D1 work resumes, so it could be one of the two

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Mission SSLV resumes at ISRO rocket launch station

CHENNAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket launch station at Sriharikota has resumed work partially to carry out critical and essential activ

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