India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully sent the IRNSS-1I navigation satellite into orbit on Wednesday after an impressive nighttime liftoff from the country’s Satish Dhawan Space Center.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 22:34 UTC on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 with the IRNSS-1I Satellite
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 22:34 UTC on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 with the IRNSS-1I Satellite
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A six-year old upper stage from India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle re-entered the atmosphere on April 3, 2018 after a slow decline from a Sun Synchronous Orbit.
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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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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 3:59 UTC on January 12, 2018 with an assortment of 31 satellites from seven different countries.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle opened the country’s space flight year 2018 on Friday with an impressive Return-To-Flight mission lifting into orbit an assortment of 31 satellites of vastly different shapes and sizes for operators in seven different countries.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 3:59 UTC on January 12, 2018 with an assortment of 31 satellites from seven different countries.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is targeting liftoff on Friday on the rocket’s return to flight mission after a 2017 failure, aiming to lift into orbit a total of 31 satellites ranging from a large Indian Earth Observation satellite to various small satellites and CubeSats for remote sensing and technology demonstrations.
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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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A streak of 36 successful launches over a period of 18 years ended on Thursday when India’s PSLV rocket suffered an in-flight failure that left its payload – a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System – in a lower- than-planned orbit and possibly trapped underneath the rocket’s payload fairing.
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