India is gearing up for the country’s second orbital space launch of the year on Friday, involving a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II delivering the GSAT-9 communications satellite to orbit
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The Indian Space Research Organization completed a major test of its most powerful cryogenic rocket stage on Friday on a path to the first orbital test launch of the GSLV Mk. III launch vehicle in the coming months to further expand India’s fleet of operational launch vehicles.
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The year 2016 saw a total of 85 known orbital launch attempts operated by eight nations from space ports in
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Stunning photos show India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasting off from India’s east coast and soaring into clear skies to deliver the INSAT-3DR meteo sat to orbit.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle leapt off its launch pad on Thursday to lift the INSAT-3DR weather satellite into a highly elliptical orbit.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle leapt off its launch pad on Thursday to lift the INSAT-3DR weather satellite into a highly elliptical orbit. Liftoff was marked at 11:20 UTC and GSLV headed due east across the Indian Ocean to reach its intended orbit 17 and a half minutes after launch.
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The Indian Space Research Organization is counting down to the launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch vehicle on Thursday, carrying the INSAT-3DR weather satellite into orbit to reinforce India’s weather forecasting capabilities.
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The year 2015 saw 87 orbital launch attempts from spaceports across the globe – 84 missions reached orbit in a year that saw 82 successful orbital launches. Here are photos of all of 2015’s space launches.
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The year 2015 saw a total of 87 known orbital launch attempts operated by seven nations from space ports in eight countries.
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“The naughty boy has been tamed” cheered Indian rocket scientists on Thursday after the successful launch of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle, lifting GSAT-6 into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit in the first ever back-to-back success for the GSLV Mk. II launch vehicle.
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