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More rants by a moron.
And these idiots believe that Pakistan builds JF 17 100%
no we are not faggots like you.
we accept Chinese role and give them credit.Indian Space Capabilities
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no we are not faggots like you.
we accept Chinese role and give them credit.
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The world disagrees
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Congratulations for being the top exporter of international terrorists
says the citizen of shithole who supported bengali militants against Pakistan, Tamils against sri lanka and northern alliance against Afghan pashtuns..
World dont revolve around your ugly kind
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Lol moron, you want me to reply to your rants?
Tejas was designed in India and has 60% Indian content...
Meanwhile Pakistanis cannot even design a microlight aircraft.
says the citizen of shithole who supported bengali militants against Pakistan, Tamils against sri lanka and northern alliance against Afghan pashtuns..
World dont revolve around your ugly kind
Really? Then why don't I see Indians being frisked in international airports for their names?
Or stereotyped as terrorists?
How does it feel to get snubbed by the president of world's sole super power?
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again rant, pagal their is nothing indigenous in ganga, all are lies, French designed the aircraft, avionics are Israeli engines from US. maybe tyre are produced in your country.
Didnt that happened with SRK on airport?
No one stereotyped us as terrorists..
Sole superpower? oh i thought its multi polar world now a days, but continue with worshiping orange bhagwan on your filthy square. may he invade Pakistan on your behalf..
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really ? Try getting out of your hellhole..
You can 'think' a lot of things, but your once sugardaddy has just snubbed you.
Moron, it was designed in India by ADA & avionics are of Indian origin. We manufacture & export avionics for various upgrade programs.
Where did you see Russian help when we did this ?
Or this ?
This little tv set is what all you minions have achieved in space technology. so STFU & GTFO.
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really ? Try getting out of your hellhole..
You can 'think' a lot of things, but your once sugardaddy has just snubbed you.
Moron, it was designed in India by ADA & avionics are of Indian origin. We manufacture & export avionics for various upgrade programs.
Where did you see Russian help when we did this ?
Or this ?
This little tv set is what all you minions have achieved in space technology. so STFU & GTFO.
abey stop crying.
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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/te...ro-to-probe/article19604368.ece?homepage=true
The Space establishment has started to diagnose what went wrong in Thursday’s failed launch of PSLV-C39. The launch resulted in the stillbirth of its much-needed navigation satellite IRNSS-1H.
A review meeting is slated for Saturday in Thiruvananthapuram, seat of the launch vehicle centre, according to people familiar with the developments.
An informed official said the analysis should be completed before the next launches of the PSLV and the GSLV came up, starting October or November.
Indian Space Research Organisation has given up on the satellite, which along with the launcher could have cost it an estimated ₹300-400 crore.
A debris tracking team linked to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram has been monitoring the unreleased satellite which is moving in a low orbit even as it sits trapped inside the heat shield.
V.Adimurthy, Adviser at ISRO, former VSSC Associate Director and former Chairman of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), said, “The spacecraft is in a low orbit and there will be natural decay. Going by its falling pattern, we expect it to fall back to Earth may be between four and eight weeks.”
Most of its parts of the 1425-kg will burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere. The huge quantity of propellants on it is also a worry. ISRO is part of the IADC and will also get inputs of the North American debris watch body, NORAD.
ISRO veterans who have been associated with launch vehicle activity recounted that they knew they had a problem three minutes after the rocket carrying IRNSS-1H took off.
During the 19-minute flight, the heat shield or topmost nose cone of the PSLV-C-39 rocket should have separated after three minutes and fallen off but it did not happen. At that point, the second of the four-stage rocket was at a height of around 125 km.
Instead, the heat shield continued to travel with the spacecraft still inside it. Normally the satellite would have got safely exposed and zoomed ahead at that point. This adversely added undesirable weight to the spacecraft and dragged its velocity.
The satellite is encased in a heat shield - also called payload fairings - in the top fourth stage to protect it from atmospheric disruptions. After around 100 km above ground, it does not need the heat protection.
Teams have started ascertaining what went wrong, because the rest of the launch milestones went off as planned except for the heat shield issue – which never cropped up earlier, they said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/te...al-for-pslv/article19604353.ece?homepage=true
Planned missions of the PSLV rocket and its big brother GSLV would go on as scheduled in the coming months, according to statements made by ISRO Chairman A.S.Kiran Kumar at Sriharikota after the launch and separately by VSSC Director K.Sivan.
The next PSLV mission is tentatively due in November or December to launch a Cartosat-2 series remote sensing satellite. It may also carry smaller customer satellites.
A GSLV flight may take place later this year to put military communications satellite GSAT-6A to space to support the older GSAT-6. A heavy-lift GSLV Mark III carrying a large communications satellite is also likely in February 2018.
Antrix Corporation, which has signed a series of launch contracts for the PSLV, sees its reliability and market intact as the latest problem would be overcome.
Rakesh Sasibhusan, Chairman and Managing Director of Antrix, said, “Launch mishaps or anomalies are an inevitable part of the space business. Every space agency has these moments."
Antrix currently has firm agreements for launching 16 foreign spacecraft; satellite operators are discussing over a dozen more launches with it, he told The Hindu.
Other commercial launchers (for example, Soyuz, Proton and SpaceX) may have suffered failures and continue to be in demand, he said. The PSLV, popular in the category to lift 5-kg to 800-kg spacecraft to space, remains a reliable vehicle to customers as it has delivered 39 continuous successes over 23 years.
It also operates in a global market segment where such services are not readily available to satellite operators, he said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...v-stacks-up-against-peers/article19608785.ece
A panoramic view of the fully assembled PSLV-C23 at the First Launch Pad with Mobile Service Tower. | Photo Credit: ISRO
Of the 41 times the PSLV has been pressed into service, it has only failed twice, thereby giving it a success rate of 95.13%. This should be seen in relation to other rocket launchers such as China's Long March, Russia's Soyuz, and the European Space Agency's Ariane 5.
After 24 years of gravity-defying service as the conduit embodying India's aerospace ambitions, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), came up short in delivering its payload to the reaches of outer space, on Thursday. This was its first failure after 39 successful launches, where it deposited with great acuity, innumerable satellites in pre-ordained paths in the earth's orbit.
A PSLV flight lasts 19 minutes, and has been used in ferrying small-to-medium sized satellites. After being commissioned in 1993 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), it had cemented its position as the workhorse in India's space programme, successfully launching 209 satellites.
After it went commercial in 1999 under the Antrix Corporation masthead, PSLV has seen its stock rise, launching satellites of 28 different countries. It created launch history in February 2017, when it placed a record haul of 104 spacecrafts in orbit. Of the 104, only three were indigenous satellites, the others being from countries as diverse as Israel and Kazakhstan. The previous record was held by the Russian rocket launcher, Dnepr, when it lobbed 37 satellites into desired orbits.
Of the 41 times the PSLV has been pressed into service, it has only failed twice, thereby giving it a success rate of 95.13%. This should be seen in relation to other rocket launchers such as China's Long March, Russia's Soyuz, and the European Space Agency's Ariane 5.
The Long March family of rocket launchers successfully notched 236 missions of the 250 undertaken since its induction in 1970, rendering it a success rate of 94.4%. The Russian space programme which predates its Indian counterpart has an illustrious history of successful missions despite the Soyuz U registering a failure in December 2016.
There have been 1,209 launches of all nine variants of the Soyuz, of which 37 missions failed to reach the desired orbit. This yields a success rate of 97% over a period of time ranging as far back as 1966, during the early days of the Cold War when the space race had become a matter of prestige between the Soviet Union and the United States in their quest to shape a new world order after World War II.
Similarly, the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 enjoys a success rate of 95.7% with a total of 90 launches undertaken. However, it holds a clean sheet since June 2003, completing 80 successive missions without failure.
Interplanetary transportation company SpaceX, which is owned by Tesla-founder Elon Musk, reported only two failures in 34 missions of its Falcon 9 rocket launcher, which has been contracted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to deliver its payloads. This translates into a success rate of 94.1%. Another NASA contractor, Lockheed Martin-Boeing, is the only anomaly in an industry where the margin of failure has empirically hovered around 5% to 10%. In the 53 flights undertaken since it was commissioned in 2010, the Atlas 5 has never failed.
According to data compiled by Space Flight, a total of 85 orbital launch attempts were made in 2016 by eight countries, of which two were outright failures. The countries that undertook rocket launches in 2016 were the United States, China, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, the EU bloc, and North Korea.
What sets the PSLV apart is its comparatively low cost per launch of ₹90 crore ($15 million). This is in contrast to NASA missions launched by Space X and Lockheed Martin-Boeing at estimated costs of $132.4 million and $62 million respectively.
The Space establishment has started to diagnose what went wrong in Thursday’s failed launch of PSLV-C39. The launch resulted in the stillbirth of its much-needed navigation satellite IRNSS-1H.
A review meeting is slated for Saturday in Thiruvananthapuram, seat of the launch vehicle centre, according to people familiar with the developments.
An informed official said the analysis should be completed before the next launches of the PSLV and the GSLV came up, starting October or November.
Indian Space Research Organisation has given up on the satellite, which along with the launcher could have cost it an estimated ₹300-400 crore.
A debris tracking team linked to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram has been monitoring the unreleased satellite which is moving in a low orbit even as it sits trapped inside the heat shield.
V.Adimurthy, Adviser at ISRO, former VSSC Associate Director and former Chairman of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), said, “The spacecraft is in a low orbit and there will be natural decay. Going by its falling pattern, we expect it to fall back to Earth may be between four and eight weeks.”
Most of its parts of the 1425-kg will burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere. The huge quantity of propellants on it is also a worry. ISRO is part of the IADC and will also get inputs of the North American debris watch body, NORAD.
ISRO veterans who have been associated with launch vehicle activity recounted that they knew they had a problem three minutes after the rocket carrying IRNSS-1H took off.
During the 19-minute flight, the heat shield or topmost nose cone of the PSLV-C-39 rocket should have separated after three minutes and fallen off but it did not happen. At that point, the second of the four-stage rocket was at a height of around 125 km.
Instead, the heat shield continued to travel with the spacecraft still inside it. Normally the satellite would have got safely exposed and zoomed ahead at that point. This adversely added undesirable weight to the spacecraft and dragged its velocity.
The satellite is encased in a heat shield - also called payload fairings - in the top fourth stage to protect it from atmospheric disruptions. After around 100 km above ground, it does not need the heat protection.
Teams have started ascertaining what went wrong, because the rest of the launch milestones went off as planned except for the heat shield issue – which never cropped up earlier, they said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/te...al-for-pslv/article19604353.ece?homepage=true
Planned missions of the PSLV rocket and its big brother GSLV would go on as scheduled in the coming months, according to statements made by ISRO Chairman A.S.Kiran Kumar at Sriharikota after the launch and separately by VSSC Director K.Sivan.
The next PSLV mission is tentatively due in November or December to launch a Cartosat-2 series remote sensing satellite. It may also carry smaller customer satellites.
A GSLV flight may take place later this year to put military communications satellite GSAT-6A to space to support the older GSAT-6. A heavy-lift GSLV Mark III carrying a large communications satellite is also likely in February 2018.
Antrix Corporation, which has signed a series of launch contracts for the PSLV, sees its reliability and market intact as the latest problem would be overcome.
Rakesh Sasibhusan, Chairman and Managing Director of Antrix, said, “Launch mishaps or anomalies are an inevitable part of the space business. Every space agency has these moments."
Antrix currently has firm agreements for launching 16 foreign spacecraft; satellite operators are discussing over a dozen more launches with it, he told The Hindu.
Other commercial launchers (for example, Soyuz, Proton and SpaceX) may have suffered failures and continue to be in demand, he said. The PSLV, popular in the category to lift 5-kg to 800-kg spacecraft to space, remains a reliable vehicle to customers as it has delivered 39 continuous successes over 23 years.
It also operates in a global market segment where such services are not readily available to satellite operators, he said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...v-stacks-up-against-peers/article19608785.ece
A panoramic view of the fully assembled PSLV-C23 at the First Launch Pad with Mobile Service Tower. | Photo Credit: ISRO
Of the 41 times the PSLV has been pressed into service, it has only failed twice, thereby giving it a success rate of 95.13%. This should be seen in relation to other rocket launchers such as China's Long March, Russia's Soyuz, and the European Space Agency's Ariane 5.
After 24 years of gravity-defying service as the conduit embodying India's aerospace ambitions, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), came up short in delivering its payload to the reaches of outer space, on Thursday. This was its first failure after 39 successful launches, where it deposited with great acuity, innumerable satellites in pre-ordained paths in the earth's orbit.
A PSLV flight lasts 19 minutes, and has been used in ferrying small-to-medium sized satellites. After being commissioned in 1993 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), it had cemented its position as the workhorse in India's space programme, successfully launching 209 satellites.
After it went commercial in 1999 under the Antrix Corporation masthead, PSLV has seen its stock rise, launching satellites of 28 different countries. It created launch history in February 2017, when it placed a record haul of 104 spacecrafts in orbit. Of the 104, only three were indigenous satellites, the others being from countries as diverse as Israel and Kazakhstan. The previous record was held by the Russian rocket launcher, Dnepr, when it lobbed 37 satellites into desired orbits.
Of the 41 times the PSLV has been pressed into service, it has only failed twice, thereby giving it a success rate of 95.13%. This should be seen in relation to other rocket launchers such as China's Long March, Russia's Soyuz, and the European Space Agency's Ariane 5.
The Long March family of rocket launchers successfully notched 236 missions of the 250 undertaken since its induction in 1970, rendering it a success rate of 94.4%. The Russian space programme which predates its Indian counterpart has an illustrious history of successful missions despite the Soyuz U registering a failure in December 2016.
There have been 1,209 launches of all nine variants of the Soyuz, of which 37 missions failed to reach the desired orbit. This yields a success rate of 97% over a period of time ranging as far back as 1966, during the early days of the Cold War when the space race had become a matter of prestige between the Soviet Union and the United States in their quest to shape a new world order after World War II.
Similarly, the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 enjoys a success rate of 95.7% with a total of 90 launches undertaken. However, it holds a clean sheet since June 2003, completing 80 successive missions without failure.
Interplanetary transportation company SpaceX, which is owned by Tesla-founder Elon Musk, reported only two failures in 34 missions of its Falcon 9 rocket launcher, which has been contracted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to deliver its payloads. This translates into a success rate of 94.1%. Another NASA contractor, Lockheed Martin-Boeing, is the only anomaly in an industry where the margin of failure has empirically hovered around 5% to 10%. In the 53 flights undertaken since it was commissioned in 2010, the Atlas 5 has never failed.
According to data compiled by Space Flight, a total of 85 orbital launch attempts were made in 2016 by eight countries, of which two were outright failures. The countries that undertook rocket launches in 2016 were the United States, China, Russia, India, Israel, Japan, the EU bloc, and North Korea.
What sets the PSLV apart is its comparatively low cost per launch of ₹90 crore ($15 million). This is in contrast to NASA missions launched by Space X and Lockheed Martin-Boeing at estimated costs of $132.4 million and $62 million respectively.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/the-men-behind-the-floats/article19649079.ece
Baby Joseph, site supervisor at a firm that works in the area of pavilions and interiors, has executed the float on south Asian satellites for the Indian Space Research Organisation. The firm was also behind ISRO’s prize-winning float two years ago.
Plywood and vinyl
No thermocol or flex have been used for the floats, only plywood and vinyl, Mr. Joseph says, adding that the float has been completed and handed over.
A team of 10 worked on the float for eight to nine days on site as per a design of D. Hemanth Lal of ISRO. The person behind the lighting is electrical supervisor M.V. Biju. The float also has a 170 degree camera and a television that will help the driver navigate the float without any accidents.
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Dr Jitendra Singh lauds distinguished contribution of Ahmedabad Space Application Centre
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has lauded the valuable contribution made by Space Application Center (SAC) Ahmedabad in providing original inputs for enriching the India’s Space Programme and also performing the role of value addition to several of the prestigious Space missions launched from ISRO, Sriharikota.
Currently on a two-day visit to Gujarat, Dr Jitendra Singh held a detailed review meeting with the scientists of Space Application Centre led by its Director, Dr Tapan Misra.
Dr Jitendra Singh made a special note of appreciation for some of the advanced technology developed at SAC, Ahmedabad with regard to origami lens, indigenously developed MMIC, Airborne low mass x-band Mini-SAR for strategic applications and disaster management, optical trans-receiver satellite mobile radio etc.
Referring to Ahmedabad Space Centre and other Space science programmes going on in the State of Gujarat, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the State was already ahead in terms of making maximum utilization of Space communication for education purposes. However, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, he said, the same applications have been effectively extended even to the peripheral areas of Northeast and hill States. In this regard, he mentioned recent MoU signed by the Department of Space, Government of India with the Department of Education, Government of Jammu & Kashmir.
Dr Jitendra Singh observed that India has already emerged as a world leader in the field of Space Technology. This has not only vindicated the noble initiative of the founding fathers like Dr Vikram Sarabhai and Dr Satish Dhawan, but has also set an example before other countries about how the Space Technology can be used effectively even for non Space Satellite Mission Programmes.
During the three years of the Union Government, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Department of Space has entered into MoUs with a number of other Ministries. This has enabled the application of Space Technology in an effective manner for several important programmes of Government of India, including Smart City programmes, Geo-MNREGA, Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine.
Director SAC Ahmedabad Dr Tapan Misra along with his team of senior scientists/officials including Dr Piyush Verma, Dr D.K. Das, Shri Rajiv Jyoti, Shri Sarkar S., Shri Raj Kumar and others were present at the review meeting.
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Dr Jitendra Singh lauds distinguished contribution of Ahmedabad Space Application Centre
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has lauded the valuable contribution made by Space Application Center (SAC) Ahmedabad in providing original inputs for enriching the India’s Space Programme and also performing the role of value addition to several of the prestigious Space missions launched from ISRO, Sriharikota.
Currently on a two-day visit to Gujarat, Dr Jitendra Singh held a detailed review meeting with the scientists of Space Application Centre led by its Director, Dr Tapan Misra.
Dr Jitendra Singh made a special note of appreciation for some of the advanced technology developed at SAC, Ahmedabad with regard to origami lens, indigenously developed MMIC, Airborne low mass x-band Mini-SAR for strategic applications and disaster management, optical trans-receiver satellite mobile radio etc.
Referring to Ahmedabad Space Centre and other Space science programmes going on in the State of Gujarat, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the State was already ahead in terms of making maximum utilization of Space communication for education purposes. However, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, he said, the same applications have been effectively extended even to the peripheral areas of Northeast and hill States. In this regard, he mentioned recent MoU signed by the Department of Space, Government of India with the Department of Education, Government of Jammu & Kashmir.
Dr Jitendra Singh observed that India has already emerged as a world leader in the field of Space Technology. This has not only vindicated the noble initiative of the founding fathers like Dr Vikram Sarabhai and Dr Satish Dhawan, but has also set an example before other countries about how the Space Technology can be used effectively even for non Space Satellite Mission Programmes.
During the three years of the Union Government, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Department of Space has entered into MoUs with a number of other Ministries. This has enabled the application of Space Technology in an effective manner for several important programmes of Government of India, including Smart City programmes, Geo-MNREGA, Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine.
Director SAC Ahmedabad Dr Tapan Misra along with his team of senior scientists/officials including Dr Piyush Verma, Dr D.K. Das, Shri Rajiv Jyoti, Shri Sarkar S., Shri Raj Kumar and others were present at the review meeting.
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The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh chairing a review meeting of Space Application Center (SAC), at Ahmedabad, Gujarat on September 09, 2017. The Director SAC, Dr. Tapan Misra is also seen.
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Report on failure soon: Kiran Kumar
The Indian Space Research Organisation expects to resume launch of satellites in a couple of months once its failure analysis committee releases its report. The committee is conducting tests on why the PSLV-C39 mission of August 31 failed to release a back-up navigation satellite into space.
ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar on Friday said the committee would release its report "very soon". The launches would be resumed in November or December after necessary steps are taken. He was speaking on the sidelines of an event to mark 25 years of the formation of Antrix Corporation, which markets ISRO’s products and services.
On the loss of IRNSS-1H in the launch, Mr. Kiran Kumar said the existing fleet of six spacecraft met all required specifications and there was no urgency for a replacement. “The overall performance of the [navigation] system is not affected,” he said.
Addressing a large gathering of ISRO officials and industry associates, Mr. Kiran Kumar said Antrix Corporation had made the PSLV rocket a globally famous and reliable space launch vehicle; it had lifted more than 200 small foreign satellites over years. It could now help Indian industry gain credibility in the $339 billion world space market. The market had evolved fast to challenge established government-run agencies.
Rakesh Sasibhushan, CMD of Antrix, said the company had grown from a turnover of ₹52 lakh in its first year to nearly ₹2,000 crore in 2016-17. It had launch orders worth ₹800 crore from various satellite operations for the next three to five years.
Early associates and former members of the Antrix board — Jamshyd Godrej, MD of Godrej & Boyce; N. Rangachary, former Additional Secretary in the Department of Space, and the late U.R. Rao, former ISRO Chairman, were honoured.
Report on failure soon: Kiran Kumar
The Indian Space Research Organisation expects to resume launch of satellites in a couple of months once its failure analysis committee releases its report. The committee is conducting tests on why the PSLV-C39 mission of August 31 failed to release a back-up navigation satellite into space.
ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar on Friday said the committee would release its report "very soon". The launches would be resumed in November or December after necessary steps are taken. He was speaking on the sidelines of an event to mark 25 years of the formation of Antrix Corporation, which markets ISRO’s products and services.
On the loss of IRNSS-1H in the launch, Mr. Kiran Kumar said the existing fleet of six spacecraft met all required specifications and there was no urgency for a replacement. “The overall performance of the [navigation] system is not affected,” he said.
Addressing a large gathering of ISRO officials and industry associates, Mr. Kiran Kumar said Antrix Corporation had made the PSLV rocket a globally famous and reliable space launch vehicle; it had lifted more than 200 small foreign satellites over years. It could now help Indian industry gain credibility in the $339 billion world space market. The market had evolved fast to challenge established government-run agencies.
Rakesh Sasibhushan, CMD of Antrix, said the company had grown from a turnover of ₹52 lakh in its first year to nearly ₹2,000 crore in 2016-17. It had launch orders worth ₹800 crore from various satellite operations for the next three to five years.
Early associates and former members of the Antrix board — Jamshyd Godrej, MD of Godrej & Boyce; N. Rangachary, former Additional Secretary in the Department of Space, and the late U.R. Rao, former ISRO Chairman, were honoured.
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