Showing posts with label Orbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orbit. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2014

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) is the heaviest rocket in the Indian kitty and so the eyes are fixated at it.

Here were many nations who were thinking that India’s most recent feat would not materialize.
India proved the whole world and even history wrong when it became the first nation to send its satellite in the Martian orbit in the very first trial itself. No other nation did it in the first trial. China and Japan failed despite trying merely a few years ago.


Thursday, December 4, 2014

Communications satellite being put in orbit for ISRO from French Guiana

GSAT-16, the communications satellite being put in orbit for ISRO from French Guiana in the wee hours of Friday, December 5, will significantly improve the national space capacity with 48 transponders.