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1984 USSR postal block on the Soyuz T-11 mission. In 1984, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian born citizen to enter space through a joint Interkosmos mission between ISRO and Soviet space program, when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 April 1984.
A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [1] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2]
A super heavy-lift launch vehicle is a rocket that can lift to low Earth orbit a "super heavy payload", which is defined as more than 50 metric tons (110,000 lb) [1] [2] by the United States and as more than 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) by Russia. [3]
U.S. space station; largest station orbited in one launch: LEO: Deorbited 1979: 1973–1979 Apollo 16 CSM+LM: 52,759 kg (116,314 lb) Heaviest spacecraft sent to lunar orbit. First mission to land in Lunar Highlands. Command module is on display in Alabama: Moon: Retired: 1972 Apollo 12 CSM+LM: 49,915 kg (110,044 lb) LEM landed at Sinus Medii a ...
UK-DMC 3 and two other foreign satellites launched. Heaviest ever commercial launch mission undertaken by ISRO. [34] [35] 27 28 September 2015 PSLV-XL: C30 Success Launch of India's first dedicated astronomy satellite Astrosat and ISRO's first launch of US satellites. [36] 28 16 December 2015 PSLV-CA: C29 Success Commercial launch of 6 ...
Launched 10 days after the successful landing of ISRO's Moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, this mission carried the Aditya-L1 Mission satellite, the first Indian satellite dedicated to studying the Sun. Launch was successful and achieved its intended orbit nearly an hour later, and separated from its fourth stage. [37]
The firm broke the record previously held by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which launched 104 satellites in 2017. The US-based space company launched 143 satellites through its ...
After several delays and a sub-orbital test flight on 18 December 2014, ISRO successfully conducted the first orbital test launch of LVM3 on 5 June 2017 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. [ 23 ] Total development cost of project was ₹ 2,962.78 crore (equivalent to ₹ 45 billion or US$520 million in 2023). [ 24 ]