This is about visiting the Indian Deep Space Network this week. The huge white dishes follow the moon every day, East to West. While we were there, a movie was streaming down, live, of the surface of the moon. It took me a while to realise that it was live. I didn’t know what to […]
About a month ago I talked to Sundar Sarukkai at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, to ask his perspective on India’s satellite programme, the “impact of satellites on India is tremendous”. He told me about the first phase of satellite technology, Edusat was an experiment in sending lessons to tv sets in schools, via […]
Moon Vehicle is an arts and culture initiative around the launch by India of Chandrayaan-1. Last September at The Bangalore Space and Culture Symposium this launch was seen as an opportunity to begin embedding other perspectives in the process of space science, the stories of its explorations, technologies, people, philosophies and discoveries.
For me, I want […]
IRS-1A (17/3/88), IRS-1B (29/8/91), IRS-P3 (21/3/96), IRS-1E (20/9/93), IRS-P2 (15/10/94), IRS-1C (28/12/95), Cartosat 1 (IRS-P5), Cartosat 2A (IRSP), IRS-1D (29/9/97),
Edusat (GSAT-3), Hamsat (VU Sat Oscar 52), INSAT 3A, INSAT 3B, INSAT 3C, INSAT 3E, INSAT 4A, INSAT 4B, INSAT 4CR (replacement for 4C), Kalpana-1 (Metsat-1), TES, Oceansat-1 (IRS PR),
ROHINI, (RS-1 […]
Mr Sharma was the first Indian person in space. He went up in a Soyuz T-11 on 2 April 1984 with two Russian cosmonauts to board the Salyut 7 Space Station. He stayed there for eight days conducting experiments, significantly, imaging the Indian continent and providing the base data for India’s current advanced remote sensing […]
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