The tweets reveal mixed emotions of people as they tweeted 30.04 percent positive tweets, 66.9 percent neutral tweets and only three percent negative tweets on the Moon lander Vikram. The tweets reveal mixed emotions of people as they tweeted 30.04 percent positive tweets, 66.9 percent neutral tweets and only three percent negative tweets on the Moon lander Vikram. India’s ambitious lunar mission – Chandrayaan 2 – has become the... 

The lander ‘Vikram’ on Tuesday inched closer to the moon after a manoeuvre that lasted four seconds to lower its orbit further. Chennai: India’s first moon lander, Vikram, on Tuesday got nearer to the moon with the Indian space agency successfully completing the first of the two de-orbital operations. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the de-orbital operation began at 8.50 am, as planned. Using the onboard... 

Preparations for the launch of weather satellite INSAT-3DR with the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-MkII) next month are progressing at Sriharikota, officials said on Friday. “The weather satellite INSAT-3DR will be put into orbit by a GSLV rocket August end. Preparations for the launch are going on,” P. Kunhi Krishnan, Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), told IANS. India’s rocket port is located in SDSC in Sriharikota... 

“Success has become a way of life for Isro. But we never get carried away by success.” The PSLV-C34 a day before its launch in Sriharikota. This remark by a senior scientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) summed up the mood in the control room at India’s spaceport in Sriharikota after the hugely successful PSLV- C34 mission on Wednesday morning. This was the 36th flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the 34th... 

NEW DELHI: In a first, Indian space agency ISRO is set to launch into space a hi-tech satellite made by a Google company into space as part of a record-making 20-satellite launch scheduled for Wednesday from Sriharikota. On its 36th launch, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will fly 20 satellites into space at a cost about 10 times less than other space agencies. As a mark of the India-US friendship, ISRO or the Indian Space Research Organisation...