Agnikul to launch Agnibaan rocket before 2022
Agnibaan is a two stage rocket with 100 kg payload capacity to orbits around 700 km high (low Earth orbits) and enables plug-and-play configuration.
Agnibaan is a two stage rocket with 100 kg payload capacity to orbits around 700 km high (low Earth orbits) and enables plug-and-play configuration.
Since 1999, India has launched 345 foreign satellites belonging to 36 countries using its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket.
The second orbital test flight will take the Gaganyaan crew capsule to a higher altitude and undergo a similar abort scenario to perfect the system.
ISRO has all the makings of emerging as a major satellite launch provider at competitive rates in the world.
The space agency has also launched nine satellites from customer nations.
Real-time monitoring of the movement of the goods trains has started in the control office application system through ISRO's satellite. GPS systems in more than 700 trains have been installed for this.
The spacecraft will be the first Indian expedition to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface.
The mission comes 11 years after Isro successfully launched Chandrayaan-1 in, October 2008.
The ISRO said the trans-lunar insertion of Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled on August 14, which will send the spacecraft to moon.
In a series of tweets, Modi hailed the historic moment and lauded the scientists at ISRO for making the mission a success story of India.
