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Indian Space Progress #20–21: ISRO’s plan to study Venus alongside NASA and ESA
Also in this special edition: ISRO’s ambitions to fetch samples from the Moon, build a space station, and develop a heavy-lift rocket!
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By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to tracking and contextualizing India’s increasingly relevant capabilities in civil space exploration.
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Indian Space Progress #19: On the new rocket in town, and many mission updates
A nimble new launch(er) On August 16, ISRO launched its smallest and newest rocket SSLV, which successfully placed the agency’s 175-kilogram EOS-08 Earth observation satellite into its intended 475-kilometer circular orbit. The satellite carries a number of novel technological components as well as an innovative remote sensing method
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Indian Space Progress #18: A flat budget, increasing mass to orbit, continuing Chandrayaan, and pushes for private space
I hope you enjoy this bird’s-eye view of all major developments in India’s space trajectory over the last two months! 🚀 India’s space budget for FY2024 Despite the many highs of 2023 for Indian space, the FY2024 budget of $1.56 billion for the country’s Department of
Moon Monday
Moon Monday #183 and Indian Space Progress #17: The one where Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan converge
How will ISRO go from Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian on the Moon? Clarifying and laying down India’s plans for increasingly complex robotic lunar missions, where human spaceflight comes in, and what realistic timelines look like.
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Indian Space Progress #16: An unsorted launch market, ISRO’s most powerful rocket, and more
I’m thrilled to welcome PierSight as the latest sponsor of my monthly Indian Space Progress blog+newsletter! 🚀 Ahmedabad-based PierSight Space, which raised $6 million recently and also won the INDUS-X challenge for oil spill detections, aims to build a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites for persistent ocean monitoring.
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Indian Space Progress #15: An ISRO-JAXA collaboration for the Moon, aiding Artemis, and more
In this month’s Indian Space Progress edition, I want to highlight how increasing independence in being able to plan and execute planetary missions can lead to uniquely impactful collaborations between organizations globally. India’s Chandrayaan program has been becoming incrementally indigenous, and the two stories below highlight its utility
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Indian Space Progress #14: On ISRO landing a spaceplane, and perspectives on Indian space
An update about the last Indian Space Progress edition before we begin this one: My review of India’s Gaganyaan mission to send astronauts to space has been republished on Jeff Foust’s revered community blog The Space Review! ^_^ How ISRO is building a reusable spaceplane Almost a year after
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Indian Space Progress #13: Prepping for India’s Yuri Gagarin moment, and more updates
India selects first set of Gaganyaan astronauts Unveiling four years of secrecy, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on February 27 the first four astronauts selected to fly on the country’s initial set of human spaceflight missions mid-decade via ISRO’s ambitious Gaganyaan program. The selectees are all
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Indian Space Progress #12: Doubling down on space telescopes, lunar exploration, and Earth observation
This month’s Indian Space Progress report is a science special. I hope you enjoy it! XPoSat gazes at cosmic objects from space On January 1, ISRO’s PSLV rocket launched India’s second space telescope called the X-ray Polarimetry Satellite, or XPoSat. While the country’s first space telescope,
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Indian Space Progress #11: Reviewing an incredible year for ISRO
2023 was a year of multiple landmark developments for ISRO, to the point where it visibly improved perceptions people and space agencies worldwide had of India’s space capabilities. ISRO, though, as usual, isn’t keen on highlighting these advances on any of their channels. Such lack of contextualized information
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Indian Space Progress #10: ISRO aces safety test for human spaceflight while school students to learn about Chandrayaan 3 mixed with mythology
I’m stoked to welcome KaleidEO as the third organization sponsor of my monthly Indian Space Progress reports! 🚀 Bengaluru-based KaleidEO is a SatSure company on a mission to elevate the value of information from Earth observation satellites by offering analytics-ready data coupled with its upcoming optical and multispectral satellites touting
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Indian Space Progress #9: Several standout launches on the horizon for ISRO, Chandrayaan 3 updates, ascending startups and ambitions, and more
There have been so many notable developments in Indian space the past month that this edition of Indian Space Progress was hard to succinctly summarize. What a nice problem to have! Also, I’m happy and grateful to share that these Indian Space Progress monthly reports are now read by