Satellite Launch  

Read these key points about India’s first National Space Day, set to be celebrated on August 23, 2024.

This is the second satellite launched by the space organisation amid the prevailing coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak
 

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-30 on Friday
 

The selection process for the astronauts for the space mission would start from February 2020, said Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan Minister for Science and Technology. Pak will use China's satellite launch facilities. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated ISRO and said that India has become the first country to use the fourth stage of a space rocket as an orbital platform for microgravity experiments

The countdown for the launch of PSLV -C44 began at 7:37 pm on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The launch is scheduled at 11:37 pm on Thursday

Space agency ISRO's trusted workhorse rocket PSLV-C43 blasted off from here Thursday carrying India's earth observation satellite HysIS along with 30 satellites from eight countries.

The 28-hour countdown for the launch began at 5.58 AM on Wednesday and the rocket blasted off at 9.58 am Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 110 km from Chennai, the space agency said.