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South Korea launches homegrown rocket after delay
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Congrats to SpaceX on yet another successful launch! The CRS28 is bringing essential supplies, food, and scientific experiments International SpaceStation
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Dr. Somanath has said all stages of the GSLV Mk-3 rocket that will launch Chandrayaan3 have arrived at Sriharikota and will be integrated together as well as with the spacecraft at the end of this month.
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ISRO readies plan for next generation launch vehicle
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ISRO has published the partial NOTAM for the launch of Chandrayaan3!!
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The enforcement duration is July 12-25
Unmanned Robot Lander or more like a Spider?
The HinduNews and other India news sites reported Chandrayaan-3 is a planned third lunar exploration by India, the Launch Vehicle is a Mark-III or LVM3 the previous design referred to as the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III or GSLV Mk III
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mid-July window for the launch of India’s third lunar mission, has begun the process of final assembly of payloads at the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru.
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Regarding Chandrayaan-3, ISRO's third moon mission, Somanath said it is due to be launched in mid July. ISRO will follow the same process that was adopted during the Chandrayaan-2 mission, he said.
"We are going in the same path of Chandrayaan-2 because we have already done that. We have experience to do it in that manner but it all depends on various other factors whether there are any other contingency conditions," Somanath said, adding, "The landing flight is just the same as previously. No change."
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Manned
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"For Gaganyaan, the first and foremost thing is that the abort mission has to be done. For that, we have made a new rocket called a test vehicle, which is ready at Sriharikota. Assemblies of the crew module and crew escape system are just getting ready," Somanath told reporters when asked about the latest update on Gaganyaan.
Human Space Flight
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Ariane 5’s Final Flight – A Look Back as Ariane 6’s Costly Succession Looms
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Europe retires Ariane-5 and is without launcher
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Europe's Ariane-5 rocket completes final launch
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The unavailability of home-grown rockets prompted European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher to declare recently that "Europe finds itself... in an acute launcher crisis".
Ariane-5 goes into retirement having lifted more than 230 satellites into orbit, equating to almost 1,000 tonnes of hardware.
As well as James Webb, high-profile missions have included the launch of the comet-chaser Rosetta (2004); the giant environmental observer Envisat (2002); the 20-tonne space station freighter, ATV (2008); and, most recently, Europe's Jupiter moons explorer, Juice (2023).
The rocket was conceived in the 1980s as a way of launching an astronaut shuttle called Hermes. That plan was abandoned because of cost, and the vehicle was brought into service in 1996 purely to loft satellites.
For much of its career, it was launching half of all big telecommunications satellites.
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