NASA scientists have plans to visit the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point, or EML-2, about 37,000 miles above the far side of the Moon, where the gravitational pull of two separate bodies creates "parking places" or stable areas to land orbiting spacecraft. There is no clear timeline to this plan yet. China...
India's Mars Probe Completes 1,000 Days in Orbit
Originally designed to last only six months, India's Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as Mangalyaan, completed 1,000 earth days in orbit around the Red Planet, exceeding all expectations of the $74 million mission. Launched by state-owned Indian Space Research Organization on November 5, 2013, Mangalyaan entered Mars' orbit on September 24,...
India's Heaviest Rocket Launches Satellite
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk III, christened "Fat Boy", lifted off from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on June 5, 2017. At 6,914 lb, or more than three tonnes, and the height of a 13-story building, the GSAT-19 satellite is the heaviest that India has tried...
U.S., India Collaborate on Building Radar Satellite
NASA and India's ISRO - the Indian Space Research Organization - will jointly build a satellite called NISAR or the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite which could be the world's most expensive Earth imaging satellite, and will cost the two countries over 1.5 billion dollars. In a meeting in Toronto,...
KKR Invests $50 Million in India's Walchand Nagar Industries
New York City-based private equity firm KKR & Co., will invest $50 million (Rs 300 crore) in Mumbai-based Walchand Nagar Industries, one of India's oldest business groups. KKR has so far deployed around $4 billion in structured financing to business groups in India over the past seven years, and has...
India Launches South Asia Satellite GSAT-9
India's Space and Research Organization (ISRO) launched the first South Asia Satellite, on May 5. Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Modi said that the satellite will help partner countries in effective communication, better governance, better banking and education in remote areas, more predictable weather forecasting and efficient resource mapping....