The Indian Space agency has taken possession of two 400kg satellites that are part of a crucial upcoming mission known as SPADEX – Space Docking Experiment. As part of this mission, these two satellites will be hurled into slightly different orbits by a single rocket.
ISRO is aiming to increase India’s contribution to the global space economy from 2 per cent to 10 per cent over the next decade. This goal highlights the agency’s commitment to establishing India as a major force in the international space industry
Last month the Govt gave budget approval of $250 million for CH-4, including cost of 2 x LVM3 launches needed for it. The final spend amount might be slightly more but this is the official outlay.
India is making its navigation system, NaVIC, accessible to civilians via mobile phones by 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is also increasing satellite launches to meet growing demand and plans to focus on small launchers and satellites to capture the global market...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national space agency announced this week its rover will join China’s Chang’E 8 mission to explore the moon’s surface in 2028, describing the development as a “significant milestone” for the South Asian country. The Chang’E 8 mission is a robotic exploration of the lunar...
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The extent to which our neighbour tries to match us
This is interesting...I wonder if MLM is being considered in place of MOM-2 or sometime after it? MOM-2 is relatively uncomplicated in comparison to this:
IndianSpacePost has already made a more legible graphic based on the above slide:
Also, we get our first look at what the ExoWorlds telescope supposedly looks like:
Unless they're just using this image as a placeholder (I don't think they are), this seems to be a very JWST-like configuration with the sun-shield & everything.
I wonder if it's specifically meant for studying exoplanets in the IR spectrum (hence the sun-shield)?