MUMBAI: All indications point to the second half of the year being when we will see some fresh action on the direct-to-home (DTH) television services front....
MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is designing a new generation satellite with unfurlable antenna for mobile television services. “Satellite design is going on. It requires...
BANGALORE: Europe’s satellite system specialist EADS Astrium and Antrix, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), today formally signed a contract to provide a...
MUMBAI: Eutelsat Communications has selected a consortium of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and EADS Astrium to build its new telecommunications satellite W2M. This is...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) aims to hand over Insat 4A’s 12 Ku-band transponders to Tata Sky on 1 February. It is in the...
MUMBAI: The terrorist attack in Bangalore a few days ago has prompted the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) to issue a red alert across its institutes...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has today successfully ground tested an improved version of the solid propellant strap on motor for PSLV. The new version,...
MUMBAI: Insat 4A telecommunications satellite has been successfully placed in near-geosynchronous orbit by Indian space scientists. The deployment of solar panels and two antennas have been...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) telecommunications satellite Insat 4A’s orbit has been raised further. In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 1.24 pm...
BANGALORE: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) telecommunications satellite Insat-4A was placed in an orbit with a perigee (closest point to the earth) of 622 km...
MUMBAI: The Insat 4A communications satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the MSG-2 weather satellite for the European organisation Eumetsat were successfully launched...
MUMBAI: Preparations are in its final stages for the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) latest satellite, Insat-4A, on board the 169th flight of...
MUMBAI: Preparations are in its final stages for the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) latest satellite, Insat-4A, on board the 169th flight of...
MUMBAI: Final preparations are on for the liftoff of India’s telecommunications satellite Insat-4A and the European meteorological satellite 2 Meteosat (MSG-2) on an Ariane 5 G...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra is planning to revive his satellite project. Essel Group owned Agrani Satellite Services Ltd (ASSL) is in negotiations with three companies including Indian...
MUMBAI: Feeling the threat that direct-to-home (DTH) would offer, cable operators met in Mumbai today to discuss how they could beat the competition. They were particularly...
NEW DELHI: The Reliance magic is working on the DTH front. A clearance is expected soon, according to the government. “A DTH proposal from the Anil...
MUMBAI: The countdown is well and truly on for Tata Sky Ltd, the Tata-Star joint venture, to launch direct-to-home (DTH) services in India. Tata Sky announced...
MUMBAI: The countdown is well and truly on for Tata Sky Ltd, the Tata-Star joint venture, to launch direct-to-home (DTH) services in India. Tata Sky announced...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has informed Tata-Sky Ltd, the 80:20 joint venture between the Tatas and Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, that the launch...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani has changed the name of his direct-to-home (DTH) venture to Reliance Bluemagic, following objections by the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp to the word...
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the satellite sector. The latest in a series of mergers and acquisitions is the announcement that Intelsat Ltd. would buy...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to foray into a niche market segment. It will create small satellites having six-capacity Ku-band transponders, aimed...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement for including European instruments on board India’s first scientific mission to...
BANGALORE: A robotic arm sent to the moon to do some sample analysis? That is what Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is dreaming to do in...
MUMBAI: Sudarshan TV has been granted the go ahead by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to launch its 24 hour news and current affairs channel. In...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair and a team of senior scientists have presented the first imageries from the recently launched CARTOSAT-1...
BANGALORE: ISRO’s INSAT-3A and KALPANA-1 satellites in alliance with Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) have signed an agreement with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Department...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching many satellites including Healthsat for tele-medicine. Also figuring in the list are OceanSat II, Radar Imaging Satellite,...
BANGALORE: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has ambitious plans to provide internet connectivity to the remotest Indian villages. ISRO is looking at a possible association...
BANGALORE: ISRO (The Indian Space Research Organisation) is planning to build a network of existing and new satellites – a regional constellation of existing and future...
BANGALORE: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), in its efforts to help the tsunami relief measures, has provided telecommunications and telemedicine facilities in the Andaman and...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan may continue to drain the public exchequer but the launch of new channels “in the public interest” continues unabated. Speaker Somnath Chatterjees...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
NEW DELHI: “The growth in the broadcasting sector, liberalisation in policies, exportation of content and IP/MPEG4 are driving ROI (return on investment) via satellite into India...
CANNES: He has the same passion to succeed that his father displayed. The same aggression. The same shrewd intelligence. And he’s doing something that his father...
MUMBAI: The much delayed launch of India’s next generation communication satellite Insat 3E will finally see the light of day on 27 September. Arianespace, the launch...
MUMBAI: Post Dr K Kasturirangan’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha, Indian space agency ISRO has decided to bring in G Madhavan Nair as Secretary, Department of...
MUMBAI: Insat-3E, India’s next generation communication satellite, slated to be launched on 3 September, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana has been delayed yet...
MUMBAI: The second developmental flight of India’s prestigious Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D2) was launched succesfully at (4:58 pm) IST today. The final countdown went as...
New Delhi: The direct-to-home (DTH) platform of Doordarshan, which is expected to initially have about 50 free-to-air television channels, will be on ‘C’ Band and not...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Insat-3A satellite’s solar array and the two Antennas have been deployed. This follows the succesful placement of the next...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite is now in its geostationary orbit. In the third and final stage...
MUMBAI: All systems go on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite. The satellite’s perigee (closest point to the earth) was raised...
MUMBAI: Indian space agency ISRO has chosen Arianespace again to launch its INSAT 4A and INSAT 4B communications satellites. After today’s successful Ariane 5 mission that...
MUMBAI: A major milestone was crossed in India’s space programme today with the succesful launch of the multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite aboard the Arianespace’s Flight 160 rocket...
MUMBAI: The launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite aboard Arianespace’s Flight 160 has been delayed. According to Arianespace, the delay is a fallout...
MUMBAI: The countdown is on for the launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite. Early Wednesday Insat 3A will take off on board the...
MUMBAI: Noted right-wing columnist MV Kamath will be the next chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board. A three-member committee headed by vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has...
MUMBAI: The second flight of the Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-D2 is scheduled for February 2003, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Kasturirangan has...

