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NYT's profile of India's space startup scene

Jul 9, 2023 3 min read

The New York Times published a 'profile' of the Indian spaceflight startup scene on July 4. The article is typical in that: a) by virtue of being published by one of the world's most-read…

Finding trash in the dumpster

Apr 4, 2018 6 min read

Op-eds Science fake news Falcon 9 GSLV Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO NASA PSLV SpaceX The Quint

Just as there's no merit in writing a piece that is confused and incomplete, there's no merit in digging through a dumpster and complaining that there's trash. However, that doesn't me…

Moon mission pushed to October, so we wait

Mar 4, 2018 1 min read

Op-eds Chandrayaan 2 GSLV GSLV Mk II Indian Space Research Organisation lunar surface PSLV TeamIndus

So, the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) Chandrayaan 2 mission to the Moon has been pushed to October from April. Delays of this sort are to be expected for missions of this scale…

Is it so blasphemous to think ISRO ought not to be compared to other space agencies?

Feb 19, 2017 6 min read

Uncategorized Antrix Ariane 5 Arianespace Brahm Prakash Falcon 9 Falcon Heavy geostationary transfer orbit GSAT GSLV INSAT ISRO low-Earth orbit medium-lift launch vehicle Merlin 1D NYT PSLV reusable launch vehicle Roscosmos SCE-200 SpaceX Sun-synchronous orbit telecommunication satellites TOI UR Rao

Is it so hard to consider the possibility that we might get a better sense of ISRO's activities if we did not keep comparing it to those of other space agencies?…

And the GSLV flew!

Jan 7, 2014 4 min read

Uncategorized cryogenic rocket engine gaseous fuels GSLV Indian Space Research Organisation payload Saturn launch vehicle space program

The Copernican January 6, 2014 Congratulations, ISRO, for successfully launching the GSLV-D5 (and the GSAT-14 satellite with it) on January 5. Even as I write this, ISRO has put out an update on its…