ISRO

PM Modi inaugurated the SAESI facility and will also unveil homegrown space startup Skyroot’s first orbital rocket this week, said the PMO on Tuesday.

India successfully launched and placed its heaviest-ever communication satellite, CMS-03, weighing 4,410 kg, into the intended orbit on Sunday.

ISRO will launch the CMS-03 communication satellite on November 2 using its LVM3-M5 rocket. The mission will improve India’s ocean and land communication network.

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan on Thursday said that 90% of the development work on Gaganyaan, India's first human spaceflight mission, has been completed.

Astrophel Aerospace has built an indigenous cryogenic pump to power its upcoming Astra C1 rocket engine. The said pump is undergoing testing at ISRO.

Skyroot Aerospace has conducted the first static test of KALAM 1200 solid rocket motor, the first stage of the Vikram-1 launch vehicle, at Sriharikota.

Indian startup Agnikul Cosmos has built the world’s largest single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine from Inconel, a high-performance superalloy.

Former ISRO Chief S Somanath remarked that Indian rockets are in ‘great demand’ globally, but the country has a shortage of manufacturing capacity.

Stardour has successfully tested the country’s first hydrogen-oxygen propulsion engine at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has transferred 10 indigenously developed ISRO technologies to 6 Indian firms.