ISRO's SpaDeX satellites close in for historic docking

The two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites that the Indian Space Research Organisation is hoping to unite are at a distance of 1.5 km and will be brought much closer on January 11, the......

India To Have Second Rocket Port

The fuel cost will come down if rockets are launched from Kulasekarapattinam as they will have a straight trajectory and need not have to avoid Sri Lanka, which is being done by rockets flown from......

Space Kidz Is Planning A Moon Mission

If it becomes a reality, the Chennai company will become the first private player from India to conduct such a mission to the lunar surface. IMAGE: Students who were part of the AzaadiSat project......

Sriharikota to get 3rd launch pad for bigger spacecraft

The government on Thursday approved setting up of a third launch pad at Sriharikota to send heavier spacecraft into orbit as it aims to build a space station, carry out human spaceflight Gaganyaan......

Space tech start-up Agnikul raises $11 mn funding

It is the largest funding round for a private Indian space technology company in the country. Billionaire and Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra along with top Silicon Valley investors Naval......

Godrej adds another feather to its cap; joins Isro's mission

The space agency has set 2020 as the deadline for the first privately built rocket to be launched into space. Godrej & Boyce confirmed on Friday it would join an industry consortium being formed......

Isro plans to launch first privately built satellite by March

Research and markets estimated in May that the global opportunity for small and mini satellites would grow nearly one and half times to $5.32 billion by 2021 India’s space agency, Indian......

ISRO to increase outsourcing to industries

Indian space agency ISRO would significantly scale up outsourcing to industries to fuel the quantum jump in the programmes being undertaken by it and has mooted a risk-sharing model, its chairman K......