Neowin News Feed for: Isro

Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-29 to simulate Moon's gravity this week - TWIRL #198

Paul Hill — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:46:01 +0000

We have a week of diverse launches coming up, but the most notable will probably be the New Shepard mission from Blue Origin, which will simulate lunar gravity. Read more...

SpaceX to dominate launch schedule into the new year - TWIRL #194

Paul Hill — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:58:01 +0000

SpaceX will pretty much take over the launch schedule with four missions as we head into the new year. Read more...

Europe and India prep for Sun corona observation PROBA 3 mission - TWIRL #190

Paul Hill — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:16:01 +0000

ESA and ISRO are getting ready to launch the PROBA 3 mission this week which will see two satellites flying in formation to observe the corona around the Sun. Read more...

SpaceX to help get the North Pole and high latitude areas online - TWIRL #176

Paul Hill — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:16:01 +0000

We have several diverse missions This Week in Rocket Launches. The most interesting will see SpaceX launch satellites that will provide internet over the North Pole and high latitude areas. Read more...

SpaceX to launch Odysseus Moon lander for Intuitive Machines - TWIRL #151

Paul Hill — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:02:01 +0000

This Week in Rocket Launches we have a fair few missions coming up. Japan will be doing the second test flight of its H3 rocket while SpaceX will be launching another company's lunar lander. Read more...

India to launch test flight of rocket capable of carrying a crew - TWIRL #134

Paul Hill — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 04:10:01 +0000

We have several launches coming up this week but the most interesting is India's launch of Gaganyaan. It's a spacecraft capable of carrying a crew but for now, more uncrewed tests are needed. Read more...

India becomes just the fourth country to reach the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:59:53 +0000

India has successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 mission on the south pole of the moon making India just the fourth country to land on the natural satellite. Russia failed a moon landing recently. Read more...

Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission successfully launches for the moon - TWIRL #123

Paul Hill — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:40:01 +0000

Coming up this week are two Falcon 9 launches carrying Starlink satellites to a low Earth orbit. If you've not seen it already, be sure to check out India's Chandrayaan-3 mission in the recap. Read more...

India to launch Chandrayaan 3 lunar lander mission - TWIRL #122

Paul Hill — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 04:48:01 +0000

We have a number of launches upcoming this week but the most interesting among them is ISRO's lunar lander mission, Chandrayaan 3. It will go to space on an LVM3 rocket and replaces Chandrayaan 2. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: New builds for Windows 11, Microsoft 365 improvements, and Edge upgrades

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:16:02 +0000

Join us in the first edition of Microsoft Weekly for 2023 as we recap all the important Redmond-specific news items from the past few days including new builds, app updates, and Bing on steroids. Read more...

Microsoft and ISRO come together to support space-tech startups in India

Hemant Saxena — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:36:01 +0000

ISRO and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the growth of space technology startups and harness the market potential of the most promising space tech innovators. Read more...

OneWeb satellites will now be delivered to space by India after it cuts ties with Russia

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:40:01 +0000

OneWeb is working with New Space India Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO, to launch its internet delivery satellites into orbit. It comes after OneWeb cut ties with Russia over the war in Ukraine. Read more...

TWIRL 52: Busy launch week for this series' first birthday

Paul Hill — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:50:01 +0000

We've finally got a busy week coming up in terms of space launches. Russia, India, SpaceX, and two other private firms will be launching this week. It's also been a year since the TWIRL series began. Read more...

TWIRL 18: SpaceX to deliver missions to Sun-synchronous orbit

Paul Hill — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 04:50:01 +0000

Next week could turn out to be quite lively or fairly dull for rocket launches with lots of the launches marked as No Earlier Than. Two missions on Friday, however, will definitely try to launch. Read more...

Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters Lunar Orbit a month after launching

Paul Hill — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:00:01 +0000

ISRO has announced that it has carried out Chandrayaan-2's Lunar Orbit Insertion, preparing it for the lander's separation and eventual landing on September 7. The work took almost 29 minutes. Read more...

India successfully launches lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan-2

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:34:01 +0000

India's ISRO has successfully launched its Chandrayaan-2 mission from its Sriharikota space centre. If all goes to plan, India will be the fourth country to do a soft landing on the Moon. Read more...

Five Google Lunar XPrize teams aim for the Moon in 2017

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:26:01 +0000

Five projects involved with the Google Lunar XPrize have been given the OK to launch their projects to the Moon this year. As part of the competition projects must be launched by December 31, 2017. Read more...