India Space Programme News

The new launch date comes after Chandrayaan-2 missed two earlier launch windows in 2017 and 2018

Isro's PSLV-C41/IRNSS-1I Mission blasted off at 4.04am from the first launchpad at the Sathish Dhawan Space Centre

The Falcon Heavy launch shows the sector's potentialbut India will need to put the right regulatory frameworks in place

Former Isro chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar says the space agency can do things at a much faster pace if given more resources

The ISRO has said that Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the moon, is on schedule and flight models are going through various tests

K Sivan, the new ISRO chief, has contributed to multiple programmes including the development of PSLV called the workhorse of ISROand contributed towards mission planning, mission design, mission integration and analysis

ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar says the whole process of assembling the various GSLV Mark-III stages and then integrating the satellite into the heat shield is going on

The GSLV (geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle) Mark II will carry the geostationary weather satellite INSAT-3DR

Kiran Kumar says the book places on record the innovative approach adopted by Isro right from the beginning to develop space technologies for national development

Radhakrishnan's stint of five years was marked by historic achievements for the national space agency