https://spacewatch.global/tag/satish-dhawan-space-center/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/satish-dhawan-space-center/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/12/ast-spacemobile-announces-successful-orbital-launch-of-the-bluebird-6-communications-satellite/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=70037 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. has launched BlueBird 6, one of the largest commercial communications array deployed in low Earth orbit. The mission lifted off at 10:25 p.m. EST on December 23 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. BlueBird 6 will deliver commercial and government applications, including high-speed 4G and 5G space-based cellular broadband, directly to standard, unmodified smartphones, and government applications that benefit from the power, size, and patented technology of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird spacecrafts.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/11/proba-3-spacecrafts-depart-to-india-for-launch/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=62082 ESA’s Proba-3 mission is about to depart to its launch site in India for its onward launch into orbit. The pair will fly to the Satish Dhawan Space Center, near Chennai, for the launch campaign to begin. The mission’s two spacecraft intend to maneuver precisely in Earth orbit so that one casts a shadow onto the other.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/india-to-launch-chandrayaan-3-lunar-lander-in-august/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38966 The Indian government announced its plans for launching its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander mission in August the year onboard of GSLV Mk 3, India's heaviest operational rocket. The mission will be the country’s second attempt to land a spacecraft on the surface of Earth’s satellite.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/08/spaceflight-purchases-and-fully-manifests-first-ever-commercial-sslv-mission-from-newspace-india-limited/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15581 Spaceflight has purchased the first commercial launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), scheduled for launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India later this year.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/communications-successfully-established-with-nanoavionics-satellites/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:00:12 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13491 After the last week’s lift-off of the PSLV-C45 launch vehicle with two NanoAvionics nano-satellites, “M6P“ and “Blue Walker 1“, onboard, the company is pleased to confirm that the communication was successfully established with both satellites and they are flying in the Low Earth Orbit in a healthy condition.]]>