Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne announced on Saturday that it's engines had boosted into orbit the US military's first Space Based Infrared System
Geosynchronous satellite (SBIRS GEO 1) for early-warning missile detection.
"The Chandrayaan-2 we are planning to have in the year 2013 and by that time we should have our GSLV (
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) flying with the Indigenous Cryogenic Engine Stage that's the target with which we are working," Radhakrishnan told reporters here.
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Apr 15 (ANI): The stage is all set for the launch of the first flight-testing of indigenous cryogenic engine on homespun rocket,
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3), from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 4.27 pm today.
The Zenit-3SL launch vehicle lifted off from the Odyssey Launch Platform at 05:21GMT on 15 July and the Block DM-SL upper stage separated from the EchoStar XI satellite about an hour later, leaving the satellite in a
geosynchronous transfer orbit ready for transition to its final geostationary orbit.
Space technology company Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) declared on Thursday that the KOREASAT 6 (K6) satellite built in partnership with Thales Alenia Space for Korea's KT Corporation was successfully launched into
geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Apr 15 (ANI): India's ambitious launch of
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) failed here on Thursday.
Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, part of US-based Lockheed Martin Corp, has won a contract to build an A2100
geosynchronous satellite for the Canadian telecomms and broadcast distribution services provider Telesat.
The CHIRP sensor features a telescope that can view a quarter of the earth from
geosynchronous orbit.