Aditya-L1, India’s first solar observatory spacecraft, has successfully completed its first orbit in the halo trajectory around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1). The spacecraft began its orbit around the Lagrange point on January 6 and took 178 days to complete this initial mission phase. Launched on September 2 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh aboard…
ISRO’s third landing experiment for the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) prototype, Pushpak, was successfully conducted this morning in Chitradurga, Karnataka. Pushpak was dropped from a Chinook helicopter and autonomously glided to land on a runway. The helicopter released Pushpak from a height and distance of 4.5 km, allowing it to descend and land safely. The…
ISRO conducted the orbit raising maneuver like a flower at 3 pm today. With this, the fourth lift of the probe was completed. Officials say that what can be done on World Lunar Day itself gives happiness.New orbit 71,000 km x 230 km The next lift-off will be on Tuesday, July 25 at the same…
The landing is expected to be in the 69.37, 32.35 region near the south polar region of the Moon. It is 100 km away from the area where the Chandrayaan 2 lander attempted to land. It is a steep, rocky area. Chandrayaan 2’s landing site was between the craters Mancinus C and Symposiu N. The…
Lander on top of Propulsion Module and Rover inside Lander. It is planned to be placed on top of the upper stage of the LMV3 rocket and launched in the second half of 2023. The Propulsion Module and Lander will be in this configuration from Trans Lunar Injection until reaching the 100 Km Circular Orbit…
The first satellites reached orbit exactly nineteen minutes after launch. Within an hour and a half it was announced that all 36 satellites had reached orbit. Victory journey of LVM3 with 100% success Two consecutive commercial launches that came unexpectedly were completed in record time, adding to the gloss of launch successes
Launch Vehicle Mark Three i.e. LVM Three is a renamed form of GSLV.The rocket has a gross lift weight of 640 tonnes and a diameter of 5 meters and a length of 43.5 meters. The first stage is a solid fueled engine, the second stage is liquid fueled and the third is cryogenic. LVM3 is…
We all have an answer to the question of who was the first woman in space. Valentina Tereshkova. On June 16, 1963, the Vostok 6 spacecraft made that trip. But it took 20 years for a second woman to reach space. The second trip was in 1982, and that too was by Soviet Union cosmonaut…
ISRO to launch small satellites at low cost The designed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV D2) was launched. Three satellites, including Azadi SAT-2, built by female students from different parts of the country, are placed in close-to-Earth orbit. The launch took place at 9.18 am(IST) from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space…
Doesn’t that sound like a joke? But this is the case This is the entrance to a tunnel inside Fort William, Calcutta.Siraj ud Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, after capturing the fort in 1756, kept British prisoners of war in this tunnel. With so many people crammed into such a small space, hardly anyone made…
