The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has organized a committee to probe abnormalities on the country's advanced weather satellite, INSAT 3D, following its launch on July 26.
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use satellite technology in its mission to review the country’s electoral boundaries and constituencies.
On July 17, 2013, as NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) orbited around Earth, the door of its telescope opened to view the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere.
Following a warning from intelligence agencies that using a foreign satellite in the proposed nationwide Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) could make critical databases vulnerable to eavesdropping by other countries, India’s Union Home Ministry has decided to take the help of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to make the project fully home-grown.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are in talks for building a satellite together.
The Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) has confirmed that its micro satellite, Pico Dragon, will be shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in early August.