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  • India’s GSLV Mk.3 aces test launch, clearing way for lunar mission

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7:30 a.m. EST (1230 GMT) after launch. Credit: ISRO The second orbital test flight of India’s GSLV Mk.3 launcher took off Wednesday, hoisting a high-throughput communications satellite into orbit to connect the county’s remote population and clearing the way for a robotic lunar lander to use the rocket in January. Boosted…

  • ISRO conducts abort test on prototype crew capsule

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    Video Playerhttp://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pat_test_video.mp4.mp400:0000:0001:39Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Video credit: ISRO India’s space agency tested a launch escape system Thursday that could be used on a future spaceship designed to carry astronauts into orbit. The abort rocket lifted a prototype crew capsule off a launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Center, a launch…

  • ISRO loses contact with new communications satellite

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    GSAT 6A before encapsulation inside the GSLV Mk.2 rocket’s payload fairing. Credit: ISRO Ground controllers have lost contact with an Indian communications satellite launched last week, and Indian news reports suggest engineers believe the spacecraft’s power system is at fault. The GSAT 6A communications satellite completed two orbital adjustment maneuvers following its launch Thursday aboard…

  • India tests upgraded engine tech in successful communications satellite launch

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    India’s GSLV Mk.2 rocket takes off Thursday with the GSAT 6A communications satellite. Credit: ISRO An Indian satellite built as a technological testbed for mobile communications successfully launched Thursday on top of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, one of 10 space missions planned by India by the end of the year. The GSAT 6A spacecraft,…

  • India tests upgraded engine tech in successful communications satellite launch

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    India’s GSLV Mk.2 rocket takes off Thursday with the GSAT 6A communications satellite. Credit: ISRO An Indian satellite built as a technological testbed for mobile communications successfully launched Thursday on top of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, one of 10 space missions planned by India by the end of the year. The GSAT 6A spacecraft,…

  • Photos: India’s GSLV Mk.3 debuts with on-target test flight

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    India’s new GSLV Mk.3 launcher delivered to orbit the GSAT 19 communications satellite Monday, and these photos show the rocket lifting off from a launch pad on the eastern Indian coastline powered by two side-mounted solid rocket boosters. The GSLV Mk.3 took off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT) Monday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center,…

  • India’s launcher fleet gets an upgrade with successful test flight

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    A powerful new launch vehicle climbed into space from India’s east coast Monday, delivering a multi-beam communications satellite to orbit on its first full-up test flight, setting marks for the heaviest rocket and spacecraft ever launched from India. The upgraded Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, named GSLV MK.3, lifted off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT)…

  • Watch a replay of India’s most powerful launcher heading into orbit

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    Video credit: ISRO India’s GSLV Mk.3 rocket took off Monday on its first full-scale orbital test flight, delivering the GSAT 19 communications satellite to an on-target orbit after successfully demonstrating new solid rocket boosters, a twin-engine core stage and an upgraded cryogenic upper stage engine. The 142-foot-tall (43-meter) rocket lifted off from India’s east coast…

  • On-board camera replays from this week’s PSLV launch

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    Video Playerhttp://isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/videos/pslv-c36-strapon_and_heatshield_seperation.mp4.mp4 Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not found Download File: http://isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/videos/pslv-c36-strapon_and_heatshield_seperation.mp4.mp4?_=100:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. For the first time, the Indian Space Research Organization has released stunning imagery from cameras mounted on-board a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle heading to orbit this Wednesday with a satellite to survey natural…

  • Resource-mapping satellite blasts off from India

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    Updated after launch. The PSLV soars downrange from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Wednesday with the Resourcesat 2A satellite. Credit: ISRO India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle delivered to orbit Wednesday the country’s third space mission dedicated to mapping natural resources, closing out a record year for Indian launch activity. The Resourcesat 2A satellite rode…