![India OKs Budget for Building, Launching 15 PSLV Rockets by 2020]()
The Indian government’s Union Cabinet on May 21 approved a budget of $484 million to build and launch 15 PSLV rockets between 2017 and 2020, meeting a demand for 4-5 launches per year “with the possibility of clinching commercial launch service contracts,” according to the office of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
![India’s PSLV Rocket Lofts Airbus Spot 7 Satellite]()
India’s PSLV rocket successfully placed Airbus’ Spot 7 commercial Earth observation satellite into Orbit June 30 along with four smaller satellites belong to Germany, Canada and Singapore.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next secretary of the U.S. Air Force told lawmakers she would work on continuing to improve the service’s space acquisition program, but sidestepped several other space-related questions including ones pertaining to national security satellite launches.
![India’s PSLV Lofts Saral Satellite]()
Saral, a joint ISRO and CNES mission, is designed to study sea-surface height.
![India Launches Radar Imaging Craft on PSLV]()
BANGALORE, India — India is poised to expand its space-based remote sensing capabilities following the successful launch of a radar imaging satellite April 26 aboard a domestic rocket.
![Indian PSLV Launches GSat-12 Telecom Sat]()
BANGALORE, India — India on July 15 successfully launched its latest communications satellite, GSat-12, aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The nationally televised launch took place at 4:48 p.m. local time from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota Island off India’s southeastern coast.
![PSLV Lofts Three Satellites, Including Resourcesat-2]()
BANGALORE, India — India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully placed three satellites into orbit April 20 including an Indian Earth mapping spacecraft that also carries an experimental ship identification payload and Singapore’s first domestically manufactured satellite.
![Indian PSLV Rocket Puts Cartosat-2B into Orbit]()
BANGALORE, India — India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully launched July 12 the country’s Cartosat-2B advanced remote sensing satellite along with Algeria’s Alsat-2A spacecraft, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
BANGALORE, India -- India took an important step on the road to human spaceflight by launching its first recoverable satellite, which was one of four payloads carried aloft aboard the nation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) Jan. 10.
In a controversial break from a longstanding military space policy of strategic self-reliance, Israel has decided to launch its next spy satellite aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than its own indigenous Shavit rocket.
