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  • Photos: India’s GSLV fires off the launch pad

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    Photo credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country’s east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster. The all-Indian 161-foot-tall (49-meter) rocket lifted off from the Second Launch Pad, one of two orbital-class facilities at…

  • GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbit

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    Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Sept. 8 after successful launch. The GSLV lifted off at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT) Thursday. Credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with a meteorological observatory destined to track storms and tropical cyclones from a perch more than 22,000 miles above Earth. The Insat…

  • India tests scramjet demonstrator over Bay of Bengal

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    The Advanced Technology Vehicle, a two-stage sounding rocket, blasted off Sunday with India’s scramjet engine demonstrator. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency launched a modified suborbital sounding rocket Sunday and ignited two air-breathing scramjet engines at Mach 6 for a brief five-second experiment that could pave the way for a future reusable space transport system. The…

  • India flies winged space plane on experimental suborbital launch

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    India’s prototype reusable space plane blasted off at 7 a.m. local time Monday. Credit: ISRO A prototype for a future winged Indian spaceship took off early Monday on a suborbital flight 65 kilometers (40 miles) over the Bay of Bengal and steered itself to an on-target splashdown, testing a heat shield and guidance, navigation and…

  • India readies reusable launch vehicle testbed for flight

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    Artist’s concept of India’s reusable launch vehicle demonstrator. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency plans to boost a sleek winged prototype spacecraft into the upper atmosphere aboard a solid-fueled rocket early Monday on a short test flight that will end with a controlled, unpowered glide to a simulated runway landing in the Bay of Bengal. The…

  • India readies reusable launch vehicle testbed for flight

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    Artist’s concept of India’s reusable launch vehicle demonstrator. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency plans to boost a sleek winged prototype spacecraft into the upper atmosphere aboard a solid-fueled rocket early Monday on a short test flight that will end with a controlled, unpowered glide to a simulated runway landing in the Bay of Bengal. The…

  • Indian launch rounds out domestic navigation network

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    The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle takes off Thursday with India’s seventh navigation satellite. Credit: ISRO India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with the seventh and final spacecraft for a regional navigation network to provide position data to users across the subcontinent independent of foreign satellite systems. The PSLV took off from the First…

  • Photos: Regional navigation aid blasts off from India

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    The sixth satellite in a series of seven orbiting navigation aids lifted off from India on Thursday, streaking into orbit aboard a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The IRNSS 1F satellite, weighing in at 3,141 pounds (1,425 kilograms), rode the four-stage PSLV’s 34th mission into space after a liftoff from the Second Launch Pad…

  • Photos: Regional navigation aid blasts off from India

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    The sixth satellite in a series of seven orbiting navigation aids lifted off from India on Thursday, streaking into orbit aboard a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The IRNSS 1F satellite, weighing in at 3,141 pounds (1,425 kilograms), rode the four-stage PSLV’s 34th mission into space after a liftoff from the Second Launch Pad…

  • PSLV lofts satellite for India’s indigenous navigation system

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    A frame from a live webcast of Wednesday’s PSLV launch shows the rocket lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. Credit: ISRO The fifth satellite for India’s regional navigation network rode into orbit Wednesday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, joining a growing fleet of spacecraft to provide positioning services to users across South…