Is India's NavIC Better Than GPS?

NavIC consists of a constellation of seven satellites and a network of ground stations and is touted to be more accurate than GPS. IMAGE: The NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) logo and......

ISRO working on 40-storey-tall rocket to launch 75-tonne payload

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan on Tuesday said the space agency has been working on a rocket as high as a 40-storey building to place a 75,000 kg payload in low earth orbit. Photograph: ISRO Delivering......

Countdown Begins For ISRO's 100th Launch

At 6.23 am on 29.1.2025, the 50.9 metre tall and weighing 420.7 ton Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F15 (GSLV-F15) is slated to blast off from the second launch pad carrying the 2,250 kg......

100th space launch from Sriharikota on Jan 29

IMAGE: The GSLV-F12/NVS-01 mission was successfully launched on May 29, 2023 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Photograph: ANI Photo   The Indian Space Research Organisation......

Why space start-ups find it hard to raise funds

While industry is upbeat, start-ups in the space sector are finding it difficult to cater to the demand due to a lack of funding, issues related to policy like foreign funding, intellectual......

'Venture capitalists have confidence in Indians'

Shiv Kumar, chief executive officer of the San Jose, California headquartered Cybernet Software Systems Inc was in Chennai to announce the company's decision to hire 300 more IT professionals in......

Isro plans to launch first privately built satellite by March

Research and markets estimated in May that the global opportunity for small and mini satellites would grow nearly one and half times to $5.32 billion by 2021 India’s space agency, Indian......

The consortium powering India's space race

ISRO has an opportunity to be the one-stop shop for satellite manufacturing, and Alpha Design is just the booster it needed.Raghu Krishnan reports. When the Indian Space Research Organisation......