Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

ISRO unable to raise orbit of NVS-02 satellite due to valve malfunction, exploring alternate navigation strategies in ...

India has launched satellites for its satellite navigation system into space. The second failed to reach its intended orbit ...

A recently launched satellite is stuck in space after failing to fire its thrusters, preventing it from reaching its operational orbit.

Despite the issue, ISRO assured that the NVS-02 navigation satellite was successfully injected into the intended ...

India’s space agency, ISRO, has confirmed a critical technical issue with its NVS-02 navigation satellite, launched on 29 ...

Isro said on Sunday that the satellite’s systems 'are healthy' and that the satellite is in an elliptical orbit around Earth.

Some orbits are ever so slightly elliptical (like a somewhat squashed circle, or, in astronomical terms, an orbit with low eccentricity), whilst some appear rather flattened (highly eccentric orbits).

Following its launch, NVS-02 was successfully placed in a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), but without the ability to ...