K Sivan

Ex-ISRO chief Dr K Sivan is now chairman of IIT Indore's board of governors

Eminent space scientist and former ISRO chairman Dr K Sivan has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of IIT Indore for three years, the institute said in a release on Thursday. Dr Sivan replaces Professor Deepak B Phatak whose tenure ended on August 21, said the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, which introduced a course in Space Science and Engineering this year. The Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) catapulted India to an elite league of nations after the success of its lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan-3. India also became the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the Moon's south pole. Dr Sivan headed ISRO from 2018 to 2022 and was in charge of its Chandrayaan-2 mission that was launched on July 22, 2019. IIT Indore Director Prof Suhas Joshi said they were delighted and excited to have Dr Sivan, an alumnus of IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay, as the chairman of the board of governors. There could no

What is ISRO's new SSLV and why is it important?

This month, a small glitch derailed an ISRO plan to place light-weight satellites into orbit. For the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle it was the first assignment and there is a lot in store for it

ISRO releases Chandrayaan-2 data as it completes 2 years in lunar orbit

The Chairman of ISRO K Sivan on Monday inaugurated a Lunar Science Workshop 2021, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

India, France working on third joint space mission: ISRO Chairman K Sivan

India and France are working on their third joint satellite mission, even as the bilateral space collaboration is entering into multiple domains, including human spaceflight programme, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said. Sivan, also Secretary in the Department of Space, said many French companies are keen to tap into opportunities thrown up by recent reforms injected into the space sector by the Government. "France is the biggest partner of India in space", he said at the DST (Department of Science and Technology) Golden Jubilee Discourse on 'unlocking India's space potential - geospatial data & mapping', an event presented on virtual mode by the National Council for Science and Technology Communication and 'Vigyan Prasar' on Friday. According to ISRO officials, ISRO and French space agency CNES (Centre National dEtudes Spatiales) have undertaken two joint missions 'Megha-Tropiques', which was launched in 2011, and 'Saral-Altika' in 2013. "Currently, we are working for the .

ISRO chairman flags off NISAR payload to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NISAR is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to measure Earth's changing ecosystem

India proud to launch Brazil's Amazonia-1 satellite: ISRO chief K Sivan

Sivan on Sunday congratulate the Brazilian team on the occasion of the launching of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C51 carrying Brazil's Amazonia-1 satellite

Covid impact: Chandrayaan-3 launch delayed to 2022, says Isro chief

Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to Moon, is likely to be launched in 2022, ISRO chief K Sivan has said. The COVID-19 lockdown has hit several projects of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) including Chandrayaan-3, which was scheduled to be launched in late 2020, and Gaganyaan, the country's first manned space mission. Unlike its predecessor, Chandrayaan-3 will not have an orbiter. We are working on it. It is the same configuration like Chandrayaan-2 but it will not have an orbiter. The orbiter launched during Chandrayaan-2 will be used for Chandrayaan-3. With that we are working on a system and mostly the launch will be next year in 2022, Sivan told PTI. Chandrayaan-2, aimed at landing a rover on unchartered Lunar South Pole, was launched on July 22, 2019 on board the country's most powerful geosynchronous launch vehicle. However, the lander Vikram hard-landed on September 7, 2019, crashing India's dream to become the first nation to successfully land on the lunar

Mangalyaan-2 will be an orbiter mission: ISRO chief K Sivan

ISRO chief K Sivan said India's next mission to the Red Planet is likely to be an orbiter.

A highly promising and challenging decade awaits Isro: Chairman K Sivan

Isro new decade plans include green propulsion as well as electric propulsion

Isro chairman K Sivan gets one-year extension till January 2022

Sivan joined Isro in 1982 and was inducted into PSLV Project

ISRO developing green propulsion for human space mission: K Sivan

ISRO has made space grade lithium-ion batteries and this technology is useful for mass adoption of electric vehicle", he noted

Rocket places India's 42nd communications satellite CMS-01 into orbit

Feat achieved 20 minutes after lift-off; satellite will provide services in extended C-band spectrum

ISRO's technology transfer policy to get renewed focus and thrust

The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency under the Department of Space (DOS) has come out with revised technology transfer policy guidelines - 2020

Country's space reforms are not aimed at privatising Isro, says chairman

Isro will be able to better utilise its resources in taking up capacity building and developmental activities, he adds

Gaganyaan: Isro's unmanned space mission for Dec 2020 likely to be delayed

The Gaganyaan mission aims to send a three-member crew to space for a period of five to seven days by 2022 when India completes 75 years of Independence

Space policy, Space Activities Bill in final stages: ISRO chairman

A dedicated policy for space and legislation on space activities has been under works for some time now. But with the government allowing the private sector, these have now got traction

Startups have already shown interest in In-SPACe, says Isro Chairman

Private firms are allowed activities in launch vehicles, satellites, space faring services and in ground operations for system readiness. The startups have shown interest in all the four areas

New navigation policy on anvil, IN-SPACe to be separate vertical: ISRO head

In an online address from Bengaluru, Sivan said the IN-SPACe as a separate vertical for permitting and regulating the activities of private industry in the space sector

India plans to launch Chandrayaan-3 by first half of 2021: Isro chairman

Isro will attempt to launch in the same area, and would have a lander, rover and propulsion module like its predecessor

First unmanned mission, part of Gaganyaan in Dec 2020, Jun 2021: ISRO

In this regard, the ISRO has initiated a full-fledged astronaut training facility in close proximity to Bengaluru for meeting its future requirements