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Security Heightened At India’s Space Port SHAR

Coastal security has been bolstered with intensified mobile patrolling.
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Security Heightened At India’s Space Port SHAR Andhra Pradesh Pathri Rajasekhar 9 May 2025 10:36 PM Coastal security has been bolstered with intensified mobile patrolling. “SDSC-SHAR continues to operate smoothly and securely,” sources in SHAR said.(DC File Photo) Nellore:Security has been tightened at the Indian Space Research Organisation's Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SDSC-SHAR) in Sriharikota, amidst the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over the past three days. Under the supervision of Senior Commandant Sanjith Kumar, hundreds of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel have been deployed to ensure safety and security at India's premier spaceport. Also Read - Maharashtra Minister Consoles Soldier Murali Naik's Family In Andhra Advertisement Enhanced security protocols have been put in place at the facility's first and second entry gates, with additional surveillance being carried out in nearby villages. Coastal security has been bolstered with intensified mobile patrolling. Security personnel on leave have been recalled to duty and new leave approvals have been temporarily paused. “SDSC-SHAR continues to operate smoothly and securely,” sources in SHAR said.

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Parameter Specifications
1 Lidar Technology Phase detection
2 Wavelength 860 nm
3 Depth Range up to12 meters
4 Depth Accuracy < 10 cm for range up to 5 m
5 Update Rate (Camera) 5 Fps
6 FOV 90ºx60º
7 3D Points Per frame 76800 Points per frame
8 Dimension 370 x 275 x 246 mm
9 Mass 8 Kg
10 Power 42 W ( Average)
 

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This technology can also be primarily useful
for following other application areas:
 People Detection and counting in heavily
crowded place
Mobile postal parcel size
measurement for large scale logistics
 Machine Safety using depth
measurement
 Helicopter Near Terrain flight
assistance for assisted landing
 Hazard detection for Car Collision
avoidance system
 Hazard detection for Pedestrian
detection and braking system
 Body size measurement predicting the
waist, hip size and further prediction
of lifestyle issues.
 Man, Machine Interface like gesture
recognition devices in mobile phone,
TV, Xbox gaming sets, etc.
 3D distance measurements,
volumetric mapping of objects
 Space Docking between 2 docking
satellites
 Interplanetary Soft Landing: Hazard
Detection
 
O bhai, what ISRO really needs credit for, is working with our defence forces to fully integrate our desi military grade gps satellites with the AI command and control system for air defence. This is all ISO + Air force + army in integrated air defence command and its not possible without ISRO playing the lead-hand to this collaboration.
 
swesh said:
Parameter Specifications
1 Lidar Technology Phase detection
2 Wavelength 860 nm
3 Depth Range up to12 meters
4 Depth Accuracy < 10 cm for range up to 5 m
5 Update Rate (Camera) 5 Fps
6 FOV 90ºx60º
7 3D Points Per frame 76800 Points per frame
8 Dimension 370 x 275 x 246 mm
9 Mass 8 Kg
10 Power 42 W ( Average)
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New Delhi: India is looking to give its satellite-based surveillance capabilities a rapid makeover, as the country navigates a tenuous ceasefire with neighbour Pakistan after the worst hostilities seen since a war between them in 1971.​

The Centre has tasked three private firms–Ananth Technologies, Centum Electronics, and Alpha Design Technologies–to compress their satellite development timeline from four years to 12-18 months, according to three people aware of the matter. The satellites are now targeted to be ready by end-2026 or earlier instead of end-2028, the three people said, requesting anonymity due to the matter’s sensitivity.
One of the satellites–under advanced stages of development by Ananth Technologies–may even be ready this year itself, one of the people cited above said. It would be launched either aboard Isro’s heavy rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3), or Elon Musk-backed SpaceX—depending on their respective mission schedules this year.
Also read | Operation Sindoor: A doctrinal shift and an inflection point
The soft orders to expedite the latest generation of surveillance satellites were issued from the ministry of defence (MoD) just before India commenced Operation Sindoor against Pakistan.
The accelerated effort is part of the $3-billion Space-based Surveillance-3 (SBS-3) scheme, which was approved by the cabinet committee on security (CCS) last October with a net budgetary outlay of $3 billion subject to revisions.
In this scheme, a total of 52 surveillance satellites are being built. While the three private companies are building 31 of these, the remaining will be built and deployed gradually by India’s central space agency, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
“It is a necessary move in light of such sensitive geopolitical interactions," one of the people cited above said, adding that the SBS-3 constellation will work as a crucial piece of infrastructure for India’s national security, and is a prime example of the kind of large contracts that the Centre can offer private space firms.
Emailed queries sent to the three companies, as well as the defence ministry—the nodal ministry that will access the satellites for national defence and security usage—did not receive responses till press time.

Spy satellite builders​

The three private-sector companies—Hyderabad-based Ananth Technologies, and Bengaluru-based Centum Electronics and Alpha Design Technologies—are long-standing partners, suppliers and vendors of Isro, and have played key roles in previous surveillance satellites, as well as landmark Indian space missions such as the successful Chandrayaan-3.
Ananth Technologies, led by former Isro veteran Subba Rao Pavuluri, was a key supplier of components to the Chandrayaan-3 mission. So, too, was Centum—led by its chairman, Apparao Mallavarapu.
Ananth Technologies earned ₹270 crore in revenue in FY24. In the same fiscal year, Centum, which is publicly listed on the National Stock Exchange, reported ₹632 crore in revenue. In FY25 (nine months to December 2024), it reported revenue of ₹479 crore.
The third company, Alpha Design, was wholly acquired by Adani Defence and Aerospace, which is a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, in April 2019. Alpha Design has been one of Isro’s key partners in building and deploying the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), which seeks to replace the global positioning system (GPS) in India with NavIC, an indigenous navigation standard. The company reported ₹536 crore in operating revenue in FY24, as per data from credit rating agency, Crisil.

All three companies are rated highly by credit rating agencies Care Edge and Crisil, based on large pending orders driven by Isro and the ministry of defence (MoD), among others.
For space firms, internal government contracts are key. In July 2024, former Isro chairman S. Somanath told Mint on the sidelines of a space conclave in New Delhi that the Centre, along with Isro and multiple agencies across ministries, is working to create awareness of the capabilities that private space firms bring to the table, and how they can be tapped for cutting-edge purposes such as secure communications, data analytics and more.
Industry veterans, too, believe that private firms can play key roles. Chaitanya Giri, space fellow at global think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF), told Mint that private space firms will continue to be preferred in large-scale, sensitive projects such as SBS-3.
“Each of these private players are already suppliers to the central space agency, which makes the manufacturing and eventual deployment of satellites for various purposes a project right up their alley," Giri said. “In the long run, more such government projects will see India start to drive revenue to the private space sector in the same model as the rest of the world—despite them wanting to showcase the Indian space sector as an open market."
 
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New Delhi: India is looking to give its satellite-based surveillance capabilities a rapid makeover, as the country navigates a tenuous ceasefire with neighbour Pakistan after the worst hostilities seen since a war between them in 1971.​

The Centre has tasked three private firms–Ananth Technologies, Centum Electronics, and Alpha Design Technologies–to compress their satellite development timeline from four years to 12-18 months, according to three people aware of the matter. The satellites are now targeted to be ready by end-2026 or earlier instead of end-2028, the three people said, requesting anonymity due to the matter’s sensitivity.
One of the satellites–under advanced stages of development by Ananth Technologies–may even be ready this year itself, one of the people cited above said. It would be launched either aboard Isro’s heavy rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3), or Elon Musk-backed SpaceX—depending on their respective mission schedules this year.
Also read | Operation Sindoor: A doctrinal shift and an inflection point
The soft orders to expedite the latest generation of surveillance satellites were issued from the ministry of defence (MoD) just before India commenced Operation Sindoor against Pakistan.
The accelerated effort is part of the $3-billion Space-based Surveillance-3 (SBS-3) scheme, which was approved by the cabinet committee on security (CCS) last October with a net budgetary outlay of $3 billion subject to revisions.
In this scheme, a total of 52 surveillance satellites are being built. While the three private companies are building 31 of these, the remaining will be built and deployed gradually by India’s central space agency, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
“It is a necessary move in light of such sensitive geopolitical interactions," one of the people cited above said, adding that the SBS-3 constellation will work as a crucial piece of infrastructure for India’s national security, and is a prime example of the kind of large contracts that the Centre can offer private space firms.
Emailed queries sent to the three companies, as well as the defence ministry—the nodal ministry that will access the satellites for national defence and security usage—did not receive responses till press time.

Spy satellite builders​

The three private-sector companies—Hyderabad-based Ananth Technologies, and Bengaluru-based Centum Electronics and Alpha Design Technologies—are long-standing partners, suppliers and vendors of Isro, and have played key roles in previous surveillance satellites, as well as landmark Indian space missions such as the successful Chandrayaan-3.
Ananth Technologies, led by former Isro veteran Subba Rao Pavuluri, was a key supplier of components to the Chandrayaan-3 mission. So, too, was Centum—led by its chairman, Apparao Mallavarapu.
Ananth Technologies earned ₹270 crore in revenue in FY24. In the same fiscal year, Centum, which is publicly listed on the National Stock Exchange, reported ₹632 crore in revenue. In FY25 (nine months to December 2024), it reported revenue of ₹479 crore.
The third company, Alpha Design, was wholly acquired by Adani Defence and Aerospace, which is a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, in April 2019. Alpha Design has been one of Isro’s key partners in building and deploying the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), which seeks to replace the global positioning system (GPS) in India with NavIC, an indigenous navigation standard. The company reported ₹536 crore in operating revenue in FY24, as per data from credit rating agency, Crisil.

All three companies are rated highly by credit rating agencies Care Edge and Crisil, based on large pending orders driven by Isro and the ministry of defence (MoD), among others.
For space firms, internal government contracts are key. In July 2024, former Isro chairman S. Somanath told Mint on the sidelines of a space conclave in New Delhi that the Centre, along with Isro and multiple agencies across ministries, is working to create awareness of the capabilities that private space firms bring to the table, and how they can be tapped for cutting-edge purposes such as secure communications, data analytics and more.
Industry veterans, too, believe that private firms can play key roles. Chaitanya Giri, space fellow at global think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF), told Mint that private space firms will continue to be preferred in large-scale, sensitive projects such as SBS-3.
“Each of these private players are already suppliers to the central space agency, which makes the manufacturing and eventual deployment of satellites for various purposes a project right up their alley," Giri said. “In the long run, more such government projects will see India start to drive revenue to the private space sector in the same model as the rest of the world—despite them wanting to showcase the Indian space sector as an open market."
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Just shows, we have the capacity to ramp up AND scale up, but dum dum babo(ons) sit on their asses untill things come to a boil and then they react.
 
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GSLV-F10/EOS-03 Mission Failure: Failure Analysis Committee submits conclusions & recommendations
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The GSLV-F10/EOS-03 Mission lifted-off normally from Sriharikota on August 12,2021 at 0543 hrs after a smooth countdown of 26 hours. In the flight, the performance of the first stage (GS1), the strap-on stages (L40) and the second stage (GS2) were satisfactory and in accordance with the pre-flight predictions. However, the onboard computer aborted the mission at 307 seconds into the flight leading to mission failure.

Initial investigations with the post-flight data conducted immediately after the launch indicated that an anomaly in the Cryogenic Upper Stage led to the mission abort. A National level Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) consisting of experts from academia & ISRO, was constituted to identify the causes of the anomaly and to recommend corrective actions for future missions. The FAC has thoroughly reviewed the flight data along with all data related to the activities ranging from the stage preparation at the launch complex, countdown to lift-off. The Failure Analysis Committee recommended a series of computer simulations & confirmatory ground tests to simulate the conditions very close to the GSLV-F10 flight scenario and validate the findings of the Committee. Subsequently, the respective teams have completed the simulations & ground tests and presented the results, based on which FAC has completed its deliberations and presented its findings and conclusion on March 24, 2022.

The time line of flight events and major observations on the Cryogenic Upper Stage in the GSLV-F10 mission along with all previous GSLV missions, were thoroughly discussed and deliberated. FAC observed that a deviation in performance of the Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS) was observed at 297.3 sec after lift-off due to which the onboard computer aborted the mission at 307 sec.The ground servicing of the Cryogenic Stage was normal and the required lift-off conditions were achieved. However, subsequent to lift-off, the Committee observed that the build-up of pressure in the propellant (Liquid Hydrogen or LH2) tank during the flight was not normal leading to a lower tank pressure at the time of ignition of the engine. This resulted in anomalous operation of the Fuel Booster Turbo Pump (FBTP) mounted inside the LH2 tank which feeds the main turbopump of the engine resulting in insufficient flow of Liquid Hydrogen into the engine thrust chamber. Detailed studies indicate that the most likely reason for the observed reduction in LH2 tank pressure is a leak in the respective Vent and Relief Valve (VRV), which is used for relieving the excess tank pressure during flight. Computer simulations as well as multiple confirmatory ground tests, closely simulating the conditions in the GSLV-F10 flight, validated the analysis by the FAC.

The FAC concluded that the lower LH2 tank pressure at the time of CUS engine ignition, caused by the leakage of Vent & Relief Valve (VRV) resulted in the malfunctioning of the Fuel Booster Turbo Pump (FBTP) leading to mission abort command & subsequent failure of the mission. The most probable reason for the leakage of VRV valve is attributed to the damage in the soft seal that could have occurred during the valve operations or due to contamination and valve mounting stresses induced under cryogenic temperature conditions.

The committee has submitted comprehensive recommendations to enhance the robustness of the Cryogenic Upper Stage for future GSLV missions, which includes an active LH2 tank pressurization system to be incorporated to ensure sufficient pressure in the LH2 tank at the appropriate time before engine start command, strengthening of Vent & Relief Valve and associated fluid circuits to avoid the possibility of leakage along with the automatic monitoring of additional cryogenic stage parameters for giving lift-off clearance .
 
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Hello everyone! A few days back I was at Kempegowda International airport, Bengaluru. While travelling in and around the airport terminal affer checking in for my flight, I happened to come across an ISRO Stall selling various ISRO themed Merchandise ranging from T-Shirts, Mugs, Play Cards, Board Games, scale models and so so much more!
(Khudh dekhlo yaaro! They say a picture is worth a thousand words let alone more than one!)

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LOCATION: Kempegowda International airport, Bengaluru, India.

Actually there are more pictures but since I am able to attach only 10 images at once, I will post the remaining later on.
Please Enjoy!
 
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