India

ISRO conducts abort test on prototype crew capsule

July 6, 2018

India’s space agency tested a launch escape system Thursday that could be used on a future spaceship designed to carry astronauts into orbit.

Arianespace aims for busy second half of 2018

July 3, 2018

Europe’s first mission to Mercury, a quartet of Galileo navigation spacecraft, the world’s first global winds observatory, and a new European weather satellite have arrived at an equatorial launch base in French Guiana in preparation for launches in the coming months.

Concerns with Indian satellite postpone next Ariane 5 launch

April 27, 2018

India’s most powerful communications satellite will soon be flown back to its manufacturing plant in Bangalore for additional checks, officials said this week, forcing Arianespace to scrap plans for an Ariane 5 launch in late May that was to be co-manifested with a U.S.-built television broadcast satellite for Intelsat and the government of Azerbaijan.

Photos: Indian rocket makes rare nighttime launch

April 13, 2018

Lifting off in the predawn hours from India’s island spaceport, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle added a new navigation satellite to the country’s space-based positioning network this week.

ISRO launches for second time in two weeks

April 11, 2018

Riding a column of red-hot rocket exhaust, an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle fired into orbit Wednesday with a replacement satellite for the country’s home-grown navigation network.

Photos: PSLV poised for navigation satellite launch

April 11, 2018

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle sits on its launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the country’s eastern coastline, awaiting blastoff with the IRNSS 1I navigation satellite.

Live coverage: India’s PSLV climbs into space with navigation satellite

April 11, 2018

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off at 2234 GMT (6:34 p.m. EDT) Wednesday with the country’s ninth navigation satellite, bolstering a regional positioning and timing network after the loss of a navigation craft on a previous PSLV mission last year.

ISRO conducts abort test on prototype crew capsule

Arianespace aims for busy second half of 2018

Concerns with Indian satellite postpone next Ariane 5 launch

Photos: Indian rocket makes rare nighttime launch

ISRO launches for second time in two weeks

Photos: PSLV poised for navigation satellite launch

Live coverage: India’s PSLV climbs into space with navigation satellite

ISRO loses contact with new communications satellite

India tests upgraded engine tech in successful communications satellite launch

Live coverage: Indian GSLV launches with communications satellite