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... geosynchronous orbit. The Indian National Satellite system, INSAT, is a series of domestic communications satellites. ISRO launched the rocket (formally designated GSLV-F02) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota ... Moon,” press release, 10 July 2006, http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Jul10_2006 (accessed 14 September 2010); ISRO , “GSLV,” http://www.isro.org/Launchvehicles/GSLV/gslv.aspx (accessed 14 September ...

... PSLV reflected a significant enhancement of the rocket's capabilities and a substantial improvement in ISRO's overall launch capabilities. Previous versions of the PSLV had been capable of placing 900 ... with an apogee (the farthest point from Earth) of 34,700 kilometers (21,600 miles). (ISRO, “PSLV-C4 Launch Successful~Places METSAT in Orbit,” news release, 12 September 2002, http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Sep13_2002.htm (accessed 3 October 2008); Puttkamer, “Space Flight 2002.”) August 2002 ...

... million Chandrayaan mission after failing to restore communication with the craft. Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO had lost contact with Chandrayaan 1 on 29 August. Chandrayaan 1 , known as Moon Craft ... designed to assess mineral composition and to look for ice deposits. Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO Chief Madhavan Nair reportedly told the state-run broadcaster Doordarshan that a malfunction in computers ...

... abrupt end of the Chandrayaan-1 project. The seven satellites, including Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO ’s Oceansat 2, launched from Sriharikota at 6:21 (UT), aboard India’s Polar Satellite ... Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. ''Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 671; Associated Press, “ Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO Launched 7 Satellites in 20 Minutes,” 23 September 2009.'' September 2009 September Sep 1 2009 ...

... days after an April 10 launch. Built by Ford Aerospace to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) specifications and launched from Cape Canaveral , INSAT was the first operational spacecraft equipped for telecommunications ... 1/2 years. Fuel-supply checks might have been inaccurate. Because INSAT was built to ISRO specifications, blame would probably fall on Satish Dhawan, head of India's space program, who ...

... launched from STS-8 August 31, had solar-array problems, said Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists who worked with engineers from Ford Aerospace, the manufacturer, to extend the panels on both sides of the spacecraft. Press reports later said that the ISRO center in Bangalore had been able to put the entire solar panel in operation after tilting it toward the Sun. But ISRO also announced September 9 that "an unidentified object" struck INSAT 1B only seconds after its ...

... Administrator James M. Beggs and U.R. Rao, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), signed a launch services agreement covering the reimbursable launch of the Indian National Satellite, INSAT ... 1C was a multipurpose satellite that would provide communications and meteorological service to India. An ISRO scientist/engineer would serve as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle during the INSAT ...

... would provide communications and meteorological services to India. In addition, the two agreed that an ISRO scientist/engineer would serve as a payload specialist during that Space Shuttle mission and discussed other possible NASA/ISRO cooperative activities in space applications and space science. (Marshall Star, Jan 23/85, 4) NASA ...

... (1,500-pound) Cartosat-2 , an Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite; Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO ’s 550-kilogram (1,213-pound) SRE-1 (Space Capsule Recovery Experiment-1); the Indonesian ... scene-specific spot imagery, joined six IRS satellites already in service. Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO planned to keep SRE-1 in orbit for 11 days before testing its reentry technology ...

... -1 had launched on 10 January. The Spacecraft Control Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO ’s Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Centre (ISTRAC) in Bangalore, India, guided the reentry of the ... it to a container port, amid tight security. From that port, Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO sent the SRE-1 to the launching station at the Sriharikota Space Centre , to determine ...

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