Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday successfully launched PSLV-C54 rocket carrying EOS-06, also known as Oceansat-3, and 8 nanosatellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.

Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 30 (ANI): The PSLV-C53/DS-EO mission has been successfully accomplished, said Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday.

New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): A total number of 27 satellite missions and 25 launch vehicle missions were successfully accomplished during the last five years from April 2016 to March 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday.

Bengaluru Sep 26 PTI Indias Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit well beyond its designed mission life of six months Indeed a satisfying feeling K Radhakrishnan who as the then Chairman of Indian Space Research Oranisation ISRO led the Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan team told PTI on the milestone MOM is the maiden interplanetary mission of ISRO Launched on November 5 2013 the probe was successfully inserted into Martian orbit on September 24 2014 in its first attempt MOM is primarily a technology demonstration venture and all the mission objectives were successfully met according to officials of Bengaluru-headquartered Indias national space agency The main lessons learnt were in the field of design and realisation of systems and subsystems launch for interplanetary mission insertion into other planets orbit operation of the spacecraft and scientific instruments around Mars orbit they said The lessons learnt have raised the confidence of ISRO scientists for taking up future interplanetary missions ISRO has been continuously monitoring the spacecraft and its five scientific instruments and officials said scientific analysis of the data being received from MOM spacecraft is in progress On the health of the spacecraft M Annadurai who was the Programme Director of MOM said the spacecrafts moving elements are facing some issues and some of the redundancies we have to switch over The spacecrafts health is reasonably good considering that we are in the seventh year Annadurai told PTI He expects the spacecraft to have a mission life of probably another one year On the reasons for the long mission life Annadurai said ISRO had done corrections after learning lessons from the Chandrayaan-1 venture in terms of reconfiguring the spacecraft and optimisation of fuel management among others Noting that Earth remote-sensing satellites typically have a mission life of seven to nine years he said it was a very satisfying moment that India could establish that around Mars also a spacecraft can be in operation for such a long period On some criticism in some quarters that scientific output of the MOM was low Annadurai said it was more of a technology-demonstration mission He pointed out that the spacecraft was launched by PSLV as GSLV was not in operational condition then ISRO could apportion only about 15 kg for scientific instruments and the time available for scientists to develop them was only 18-19 months I dont think we could have done better than what we have done Annadurai said ISRO officials said the spacecraft has already covered three Martian years one Martian year is about two earth years We have seen how changes happen on the Mars from one season to another one Martian year to another Martian year they said Annadurai said We have good inputs on seasonal affects on Mars atmospheresurface The mission has provided meaningful data also PTI RS SS SS

Bengaluru Sept 19 PTI The Department of Space DoS plans to realise entirely-built rockets -- GSLV-Mk III and SSLV -- from Indian industry partners in addition to PSLV according to a top official of its commercial arm NSIL NSIL NewSpace India Limited has received three bids -- HAL-LT BEL-Adani-BEML and BHEL in response to the request for proposal RFP floated by it for end-to-end production of PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle We are now going through the techno-commercial evaluation in respect of the three bids NSIL Chairman and Managing Director Radhakrishnan D told PTI here He said the process will be completed within the next two months with one of the bidders bagging the contract The selected bidder will be responsible for realisation of five numbers of PSLV Immediately after selection of the bidder to produce the entire PSLV NSIL will release Expression of Interest EOI for end-to-end production of another operational rocket -- GSLV-Mk III Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle -- in a similar fashion Radhakrishnan said I am targeting before the end of this year to release EOI for GSLV-Mk III he said NSIL also has plans to realise SSLV Small Satellite Launch Vehicle being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO with the first development flight expected by this year-end through Indian industry partners We are waiting for the first mission of SSLV to happen successfully Radhakrishnan said This SSLV will be an ideal candidate for industry production SSLV is a three-stage all solid vehicle and has a capability to launch up to 500 kg satellite mass into 500 km low earth orbit LEO and 300 kg to Sun Synchronous Orbit SSO The new generation compact rocket has been designed to meet launch on demand requirements in a cost-effective manner for small satellites in a dedicated and rideshare mode according to officials of Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO Industrialisation of space activities is gaining momentum in India About 40 space startups and industries are in consultation with ISRO for support related to various domains of space activity such as development of satellites launch vehicles develop applications and provide space-based services Indias Foreign Direct Investment policy in the space sector is also getting revised which the ISRO Chairman and DoS Secretary K Sivan believe will open up huge avenues for foreign companies to invest in the country Earlier this month the DoS entered into a Framework MoU with two spacetech startups -- Skyroot Aerospace and Agnikul Cosmos -- for access to ISRO facilities and expertise towards the development and testing of subsystemssystems of space launch vehicles PTI RS APR APR