Indian Space Research Organisation

05 Mar 2010

ISRO has successfully flight tested a new generation high performance sounding rocket on Wednesday, which is designed to test futuristic air-breathing propulsion technology.

27 Feb 2010

02 Feb 2010

28 Jan 2010

An ambitious Indian Space Research Organisation is not only planning deeper forays into space, starting with Mars, but also looking at the complications involved in setting up a lunar base.

28 Jan 2010

The Indian Space Research Organization has said that the configuration of the new moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' was being finalised and that it would be launched by 2013.

27 Jan 2010

India’s first manned mission has been scheduled for 2016, and will see two astronauts spending seven days in a low earth orbit.

25 Jan 2010

The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully conducted a static test of the S-200 strap-on booster, which is the third largest solid booster in the world, next only to the solid booster of NASA’s Space Shuttle and Arianespace’s Ariane-5.

04 Jan 2010

02 Jan 2010

 ISRO’s largest rocket- the GSLV-D3- will be launched with an indigenous cryogenic stage and engine, making the country only the fifth or sixth in the world to have successfully developed such technology.

24 Dec 2009

Russia will cooperate with India in helping it build an indigenously designed manned spaceship by 2020 sharing technology used in developing their Souyz spacecraft.

05 Dec 2009

India will join a select group of countries possessing cryogenic engine technology when it launches its biggest rocket, the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV), in January 2010.

27 Nov 2009

20 Nov 2009

27 Oct 2009

Dr K Radhakrishnan, director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, takes over as the new chairman of ISRO, becoming the first active classical arts performer to head any top-notch scientific institution in the country.

25 Sep 2009

ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has confessed that scientists are rethinking the experiments to be carried by the follow-on mission Chandrayaan-II after the discovery of water in larger quantities than previously estimated.

25 Sep 2009

A jubilant space science community across the globe is now pondering how the discovery of water on the moon, is likely to impact the future of space activity.

24 Sep 2009

ISRO and NASA are set to announce "path-breaking" news that payloads onboard the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter have found evidence of water on the moon.

23 Sep 2009

ISRO’s workhorse space rocket, the PSLV-C14, successfully placed the 960-kg Oceansat-2 into its designated orbit today along with six other nano satellites, replicating its feat from April 2008 when it launched 10 satellites simultaneously.

22 Sep 2009

14 Sep 2009

Indian media's traditional carping ways with respect to a national success story in critical or strategic areas was lambasted by European Space Agency scientists who suggested that the mission's underlying achievement be taken onboard rather than its early termination.

10 Sep 2009

09 Sep 2009

The premature shut-down of the ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission on 29 August also brought to a close an interesting joint effort with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter where both agencies were conducting bi-static observations aimed at finding water ice at the moon's poles.

09 Sep 2009

A peer review committee of scientists from ISRO, NASA and the European Space Agency has expressed satisfaction on the excellent performance of the Chandrayaan-1 mission. 

05 Sep 2009

02 Sep 2009