India successfully launched five satellites into orbit Monday, one of them a mini-spacecraft built by students, space officials said.
Indian investigators are probing a Tuesday pre-dawn firing on guards posted at a space research center, authorities said.
Indian researchers have announced plans to send their astronauts to space in 2016.
India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans.
India has ended its unmanned moon mission after failed attempts to regain contact with the orbiter, an official said Monday.
Indian space scientists were scrambling Sunday to regain contact with their unmanned moon mission a day after they abruptly lost contact with the orbiter.
Apollo reunion
updated: Fri Jul 17 2009 09:49:00
On the eve of the moon landing anniversary, the Apollo astronauts remember the historic event.
Flashback to 1984: As a child, I am glued to my family's black-and-white television set for our daily dose of evening entertainment and news on India's national broadcaster.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has more than 60 events that it lists as "milestones" since 1962-63, which includes the successful use of polar and geosynchronous satellite launch vehicles.
India next month will launch a new "remote-sensing" satellite built with Israeli "inputs," the Indian Space Research Organization said Saturday.
Indian scientists have discovered three new species of bacteria in Earth's upper stratosphere that are resistant to ultraviolet radiation, researchers said.
A TV-size probe adorned with a painting of the Indian flag successfully rammed into the moon Friday evening as part of the country's first unmanned lunar mission, Indian space officials said.
India blasted into the international space race Wednesday with the successful launch of an ambitious two-year mission to study the moon's landscape.
An unmanned mission to the moon boosts India's chances of beating China in the race to land an astronaut there
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