India’s GSAT-6A military communications satellite has unexpectedly gone silent after conducting a major engine burn on Saturday, indicating a potentially serious onboard anomaly had occurred less than two days after the craft’s successful launch atop a GSLV rocket.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle powered away from the country’s Eastern Shore on Thursday, successfully placing the GSAT-6A advanced S-Band communications satellite into orbit and introducing an upgraded engine as the first of a number of improvements coming up on India’s rockets in the coming years.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.
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India is gearing up for the country’s second space launch of the year, targeting Thursday to send a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle toward a high-energy orbital destination with the GSAT-6A government- and military-use communications satellite.
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The third stage of an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. II rocket re-entered the atmosphere on March 1, 2018 after spending over two and a half years spiraling down from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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The Cryogenic Upper Stage of the inaugural orbital mission of India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. III or LVM3 re-entered the atmosphere on February 8, 2018 after spending eight months slowly spiraling down from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.
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The third stage of an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. II rocket re-entered the atmosphere on October 10, 2017 after spending just over five months spiraling down from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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India’s GSAT-19 satellite reached a near-Geostationary Orbit on Saturday after a re-planned orbit-raising campaign that was necessitated by a slightly off-target delivery of the high-throughput communications satellite by the new GSLV Mk. III launch vehicle.
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India took another major step in the country’s space program on Monday, successfully demonstrating an all-up orbital mission with their new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III heavy-lifter that is envisioned to end Indian reliance on foreign launches vehicles.
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The Indian Space Organization launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:58 UTC on June 5, 2017
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The Indian Space Organization launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:58 UTC on June 5, 2017 on the rocket’s first orbital demonstration mission.
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India is counting down to the long-awaited orbital demonstration mission of the GSLV Mk. III rocket, the country’s most ambitious launch vehicle development to date.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Friday on a mission to deliver the GSAT-9 satellite to orbit to eventually deliver TV and navigation augmentation services to India and other South Asian countries.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:27 UTC on May 5, 2017 on a 17-minute climb to orbit with the 2,230-Kilogram GSAT-9 communications satellite
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:27 UTC on May 5, 2017 on a 17-minute climb to orbit with the 2,230-Kilogram GSAT-9 communications satellite
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