Indiayesterday approved undertaking design and development of GSAT-11 Communication Satellite at a total cost of Rs. 500 crores. The GSAT-11 is an advanced communication satellite which will be a high capacity multi-beam Ku/Ka-band spacecraft. The launch of GSAT-11 will augment the Ku-band capacity considerably for telecommunication services in the country. With 16 beams in Ku-band [...]

Voronezh, 20 July: First Russian-made Antonov-148, registration RA-61701, performed its maiden flight from the airdrome of the Voronezh aviation plant VASO on Sunday, 19 July. The crew consisted of Gennady Ryabov, VASO test-pilot, who flight-tested all recently built Il-96 series widebody airliners, and Sergei Troshin, test-pilot and commander of Antonov flight-test crews, with over 250 [...]

The Indian Space Research Organization has awarded an $82 million contract to Raytheon Company to modernize the Indian air navigation system. Raytheon will build the ground stations for the GPS-Aided Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation System, and ISRO will provide the space segment and additional ground equipment. GAGAN will provide satellite-based navigation for civil aviation over Indian [...]