Slated For Launch In 2013, Power-Packed Payloads To Sniff Out Water & More
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The second Indian space mission to the moon, Chandrayaan 2, scheduled for 2013, will have three new Indian payloads and will repeat two instruments from the 2008 Chandrayaan 1 mission that lead to the discovery of water in the form of ice near the North Pole of the moon.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday announced that a national committee of experts had p

Kumar Manish | TNN

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is engaged in the satellite mapping of the country's wetlands and will complete the project by the end of August, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday.

MUMBAI: Sting may have famously penned the song 'Every breath you take, every move you make...I'll be watching you' in the 1980s, but it's Mumbai's town planners who are humming the tune now.

Sriharikota: Isro will launch an unmanned space mission to orbit around the earth in 2013 as a prelude to its manned mission, to get an idea of the space environment and how the system behaves.

PSLV Delivers 5 Satellites At One Go

Chennai: In a flawless launch, five satellites, including the advanced high-resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit on Monday by India

SRIHARIKOTA, 12 JULY: In a textbook launch, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) today successfully placed into orbit remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and four other satellites after a perfect lift off from the spaceport here.

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THE Madras High Court has restrained the authorities concerned from preventing fishermen in Ennore and Pulicat areas from carrying on fishing activities during the on fishing activities during the launch of rockets.