Tag: Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

Air-drop test success a big step in Gaganyaan mission: ISRO scientist

August 25, 2025 admin

A. Rajarajan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, displays a scale model of the crew module for the Gaganyaan programme on August 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) conducted successfully at Sriharikota on Sunday (August 24, 2025) marks an important step for Gaganyaan, India’s keenly watched programme for…

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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Director to interact with students

December 23, 2024 admin

Space scientist and Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director S. Unnikrishnan Nair will interact with students at Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha, on January 3 at 10 a.m. He will be honoured with the Nirmala Vigyan Puraskar 2024 his pivotal role in space exploration. According to a communication, students from the Department of Physics will stage a…

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ISRO successfully conducts ‘Pushpak’ Reusable Landing Vehicle landing experiment

March 22, 2024 admin

Pushpak making an autonomous landing on the ATR runway at Chitradurga. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the Pushpak Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02 landing experiment at the Aeronautical Test Range in Chitradurga on Friday, March 22, 2024. The RLV LEX 02 landing experiment is the second…

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Top Space Official On Gaganyaan

March 6, 2024 admin

Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. Thiruvananthapuram: The Gaganyaan manned space flight mission will launch “Indian astronauts into space from Indian soil on an India-made rocket”, Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, the head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, told NDTV in a special interview…

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Payload aboard Aditya-L1 mission detects solar wind impact of Coronal Mass Ejections

February 23, 2024 admin

In this Sept. 2, 2023 file photo, ISRO’s PSLV-C57 carrying Aditya-L1, India’s maiden solar mission spacecraft, lifts off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: PTI Advanced sensors of a payload on board India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 have successfully detected the impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…

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ISRO to hold more tests for Gaganyaan in coming months

October 25, 2023 admin

ISRO successfully launched the Gaganyaan’s Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: ANI After the successful Test Vehicle-D1 (TV-D1) mission on October 21, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has lined up more test missions in the months ahead for the Gaganyaan programme. Upcoming tests include…

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After Chandrayaan-3, Space Physics Lab at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre prepares to study solar wind

August 27, 2023 admin

ISRO will use an XL variant of the PSLV to place the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in a low earth orbit. Photo: isro.gov.in Scientists at the Space Physics Laboratory (SPL) under the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here are getting ready to unravel the secrets of the solar wind as the Aditya-L1 mission, meant to study the…

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