The recently announced space sector reforms are not aimed at privatization of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), its Chairman and Secretary in the Department of Space, K Sivan asserted on Thursday. The space agency also stated that the draft on the proposed space activity bill is almost final and it will soon be placed […]
Allowing the private sector to carry out space activities like building of rockets, satellites, and providing launch services is a major reform, ISRO chief K Sivan said on Thursday. The Cabinet on Wednesday approved participation of the private sector in the entire range of space activities, including planetary exploration missions. Terming this a “major reform”, […]
Madhavan Nair has warned against structural changes in the ISRO, as he sought to draw similarities between the space agency and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in terms of having a unified command for delivering efficient performance. The former Chairman of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) said some of the recent media reports project an alarming picture […]
We know that everything on earth has been affected by the pandemic COVID 19. It hasn’t even left the space research projects. Gaganyaan project of ISRO which was supposed to be launched this year has been therefore postponed to 2021. The Gaganyaan project was supposed to be an unmanned flight. It was scheduled to be […]
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has entered into an agreement with Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) for cooperation in the field of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Astrophysics. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by R Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary of ISRO and Dipankar Banerjee, Director of ARIES, Nainital through videoconference mode at […]
Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday congratulated NASA and SpaceX for their manned mission and termed it as “historic.” “Congratulations to #NASA and #SpaceX for historic first launch of manned mission after 2011. Great job !” ISRO tweeted. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts on Sunday successfully docked with the International Space Station after […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation has invited proposals for the development of indigenous technologies for sustained Indian human space program and space exploration. The Directorate of Human Space Programme of the city – headquartered ISRO has sought proposals for 18 tentative technology development areas. India’s first manned mission to space ‘Gaganyaan’ is planned around 2022. […]
The inhabitants of the planet earth are very well aware of the gradual diminishing of natural resources. Well, water is one of the recyclable natural resources but the techniques necessary for this is a must to be found under the current situations. For the process of acquiring the correct means of preservation of the water […]
2020 and 2021, these two years are going to be big ones for ISRO and India, as a whole. Not only did ISRO announced that it is planning on launching its first-ever crewed mission into space in 2021, but the Indian Space Research Organisation has also lined up as many as 36 missions for the […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation is planning on its first-ever manned mission. ISRO is planning to launch its first crewed flight, the Gaganyaan, in December 2021. ISRO had always been dependant on the Serbs for getting into orbit. Now that ISRO announced that it is planning its first-ever crewed mission to space, all of that […]
A report shows that around 3000 government email IDs were found to be compromised recently. The breached email IDs reportedly have ‘gov.in’ extension with them. Moreover, the IDs and the passwords are available in plain text across multiple databases of leaked emails, as per the reports. The Quint has reportedly found at least twenty government […]
