Indian Space Research Organisation

Isro starts count-down for tomorrow’s IRNSS-1D launch

27 Mar 2015

Isro to flight-test reusable launch vehicle technology

04 Mar 2015

The reusable launch vehicle technology demonstrator (RLV-TD), which could bring down the cost of satellite launches, will be test flown by the second quarter of 2015

Isro to launch fourth navigational satellite on 9 March

02 Mar 2015

Shailesh Nayak takes over as ISRO chief as K Radhakrishnan retires

01 Jan 2015

Senior scientists like AS Kiran Kumar, director of Isro Space Application Centre (SAC) Ahmedabad and MYS Prasad, director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, were in contention for the post

Isro chief Radhakrishnan, computer scientist Radhika Nagpal among Nature’s top 10 scientists

26 Dec 2014

Nature picked Radhakrishnan for successfully leading India’s first interplanetary mission Mangalyaan, while another scientist of Indian origin, Radhika Nagpal, who used biology-inspired robotics to get a swarm of 1,024 robots to assemble and form various shapes, also found a place among the top ten

Industries benefit as Isro farms out equipment manufacturing

19 Dec 2014

Isro tests lunar crew module on its heaviest rocket GSLV-Mark III

18 Dec 2014

GSLV-Mk III will make India fully self-reliant in launching heavier communication satellites of the INSAT-4 class and enhance the country’s capability to be a competitive player in the multimillion dollar commercial launch market