Earth-imaging and mapping satellite CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 other nano-satellites from the US was launched at 9:29 am on Wednesday. PSLV-C47 on its 49th mission would carry CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 commercial nanosatellites from the United States. With an overall mass of 1,625kgs, CARTOSAT-3 would address the increased user's demands for large scale urban planning, rural resource and infrastructure development, …
More than four months after the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organization has returned to the launch pad for its next mission –Cartosat-3 - which will take off early on Wednesday. An earth-observation satellite, Cartosat-3 would lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, aboard PSLV-C47at 9:28 am on Wednesday, subject to weather conditions. …
From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office and a bicycle as ferry and naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in Kerala and converting a toilet into a satellite data receiving centre in Bengaluru, Indian space odyssey have come a long way to ferrying foreign satellites, launching moon and Mars …
