The TV broadcasting and VSAT networks, he said, have become `niche' market for satellite services in India and half of the satellite TV channels and their news feeds covering India are in the INSAT system.
With a mission life of ten years, INSAT-4CR will carry 12 high-power Ku-band transponders designed to provide Direct-to-Home television services, facilitating video picture transmission and digital satellite news gathering.
Eminent rocket scientist S Somanath has been appointed as the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation as well as the space secretary, a personnel ministry order issued on Wednesday said.
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam made a surprise visit to his favourite vegetarian restaurant in the arterial Anna Salai in Chennai for dinner on Thursday night putting security personal into tenterhooks.
XPoSat or X-ray Polarimeter Satellite is India's first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions.
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ISRO has developed a low-cost 'vessel monitoring system' to help track and navigate.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange have extended trading timings for a fortnight, starting September 25 to October 09, on account fo sun outage during this period.
The indigenous rocket will carry the second technology experiment satellite GSAT-2.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has released the first images of India's heaviest rocket, referred to as "Bahubali" days before it ferries India's Chandrayaan-2 into space. India's most ambitious space mission yet, Chandrayaan-2, which aims to place a robotic rover on the moon, will be launched on July 15 at 2:51 am. Here's all you need to know about the rocket.
Indian Space Research Organisation chief Madhavan Nair on Saturday virtually admitted that the Chandrayaan-I moon mission could be over, saying it is a 'pretty difficult' situation. "At the moment, we have suspended the mission. Calling it off would depend on what has failed. We are trying to analyse what has gone wrong and we will take a look at it on Sunday," he said.Asked if there was any hope of the mission surviving, he said he can't confirm anything at the moment.
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G Madhavan Nair said ISRO had got necessary approvals from the Union government for the project.
Scientists at ISRO used the orbiter high resolution camera onboard the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter to study the lunar surface hours before and after the soft-landing of Vikram lander on the moon on August 23.
The Indian Space Research Organisation will also ramp up the number of transponders on its communication satellites to 500 from the current 175 to meet the growing demand in the various sectors. Government has also proposed to more than double the plan outlay ISRO to Rs 27,305 crore to enable it achieve its ambitious programmes, including facilitating tele-medicine and tele-education services.
ISRO does not figure either in the main list of top 20 satellite operators or in the supplementary list of five operators that are on threshold of commercial success in a ranking done by Space News.
A huge 52.82 per cent of the scientists recruited in 2006 have left the Indian Space Research Organisation for the private sector, citing better remunerative packages
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel hopes to introduce GAGAN in a limited way next year and the full system by 2010.
India performed yet another space feat on Wednesday when the Indian Space Research Organisation launched a record 104 satellites into orbit from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, something no other country has done before.
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With the development of GSLV Mark-III, India will be able to launch heavy satellites into the geosynchronous transfer orbit. This vehicle is billed as the technological successor to GSLV Mark-II.
After PLSV-C8, PLSV-C10 carrying Polaris satellite would also be launched either in June or July, officials added.
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It appears India will be among those nations consigned to being among the watchers and not participants of this crucial phase, observes Aakar Patel.
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In a giant leap for its space programme, India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar south pole at 6.04 pm on Wednesday, propelling the country to an exclusive club of four and making it the first country to land on the uncharted surface.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its third and final developmental flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle here on Friday whose payloads can be used in applications like satellite-based surveillance, disaster and environmental monitoring, fire detection, volcanic activity among others.
AzaadiSAT had around 75 small payloads developed by schoolgirls of 75 rural schools.
The ISRO had earlier said Chandrayaan-2 will be launched in a window from January-February 16, 2019.Sources said it is expected by the middle of next month but no date has been finalised.
