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Commercial launches for foreign nations are negotiated through NSIL (formerly through Antrix), the ISRO's commercial arm. Between 2013 and 2015, India launched 28 foreign satellites for nine countries, earning revenue of US$101 million. [2] As of October 2022, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and GSLV Mk III are the launch vehicles utilized ...
Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon launched. [69] 7 20 April 2009 PSLV-CA: C12 Success India's first all weather observation spy satellite RISAT-2 launched. [70] 8 15 April 2010 GSLV Mk II: D3 Failure First flight test of the ISRO designed and built Cryogenic Upper Stage.
ISRO's workhorse, the PSLV, became the mainstay for successful launches of indigenous satellites from India during this decade. India successfully launched 11 geostationary or geosynchronous satellites during this period, which was equal to the total number of similar launches in the previous 2 decades put together.
India’s space agency Isro has launched its first satellite to study black holes and announced ambitious plans for 2024 that include gearing up for its first crewed mission to space.. The country ...
It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). It is India's first interplanetary spaceflight mission and ISRO has become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. India is the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in ...
India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.
The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)-manufactured space observatory to study polarisation of cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, [ 8 ] and it has an expected operational lifespan of at least five years.
The satellite was initially expected to be launched in 2024 on an LVM 3, [10] [11] [12] but shifted to Falcon 9 due to the satellite being 700 kg overweight for a successful launch on indigenous platforms. [13] Hence, the commercial arm of ISRO, New Space India Limited signed a contract with SpaceX for