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Successful Flight Test of Astra BVR Air-to-Air Missile
Successful Flight Test of Astra BVR Air-to-Air Missile Astra, the indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), was successfully test fired by the Indian Air Force from Su-30 aircraft, from Air Force Station, Kalaikunda.
The missile successfully engaged a manoeuvring target with high precision meeting the mission objectives.
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MOM completed 4 years of its journey ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India’s maiden interplanetary mission, has completed four years orbiting around the red planet.
MOM was launched on November 2013, and it placed itself into the Martian orbit on September 2014.
The designed mission life of MOM was six months.
But it has been sending scientific data for four years.
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India successfully test fires Prithvi Defence vehicle India successfully conducted an interceptor missile test off the Odisha coast, achieving a major milestone in developing a two-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system.
According to Defence sources, the interceptor was launched from Abdul Kalam Island of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).
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Dr VR Lalithambika is heading India’s First Human Space Mission The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has chosen veteran scientist Dr VR Lalithambika to head its Gaganyaan mission to put an Indian in space by 2022.
The 56-year-old scientist has 30 years of experience in space missions with ISRO.
She was also a key member of the team responsible for launching 104 satellites in one go in February 2017.
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India successfully test fires short-range Prahaar missile India has successfully test-fired the indigenously developed surface-to-surface short-range tactical ballistic missile ‘Prahaar’ from the Odisha coast.
The test launch was successful, as the missile travelled a range of 200 km before zeroing in on the target, achieving all mission objectives.
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DRDO Successfully Flight Tested Tactical Missile ‘Prahar’ Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested the indigenously developed surface-to-surface tactical missile ‘Prahar’, from Launch Complex-III, ITR, Balasore, Odisha.
Range stations and electro-optical systems tracked the missile throughout its flight.
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ISRO launched two U.K. satellites ISRO launched two U.K. satellites from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR Sriharikota.
The PSLV-C42 lifted off NovaSAR and S1-4, the two satellites from the United Kingdom.
The two satellites were successfully launched in the desired orbit by ISRO.
This was the 12th such launch of a core-alone version of the PSLV by ISRO.
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NASA launches satellite to track Earth’s melting ice In a bid to understand Earth’s ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow cover and permafrost, NASA successfully launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2.
The satellite with a three-year mission was launched with liftoff aboard a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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IAF carries out first ever mid-air refuelling of Tejas combat jet Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully carried out first ever mid-air refuelling of indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas MK-1 over Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
With this, India joins in elite group of countries which have successfully developed air-to-air refuelling system for military aircraft.
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ISRO unveils space suit for 2022 mission The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) displayed a space suit for mission ‘Gaganyaan’ at the 6th edition of Bengaluru Space Expo.
The orange-colored prototype space suit is developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.
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China launched new marine satellite HY-1C on Long March-2C rocket China successfully launched a new marine satellite called HY-1C aboard a Long March-2C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province.
To the object of better monitor its maritime waters and study the impact of climate change.
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Japan to test mini space elevator Researchers at Shizuoka University, a Japanese team, has developed a space elevator, a miniature version on satellites.
The first trial of the miniature version of the apparatus and monitoring equipment on satellites will be conducted in the month of September.
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Chandrayaan-2 to be launched in Jan 2019 Chandrayaan-2, ISRO’s “most complex mission”, is scheduled to be launched in January next year after experts suggested changes to avert failure, its chief K Sivan said.
He said the project was reviewed by eminent experts who suggested some changes in entering the orbit and in landing the rover.
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