The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved another leap in its quest for self-reliance in space, successfully launching the heaviest communication satellite ever lifted from Indian soil using its formidable heavy-lift rocket, the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3). Affectionately nicknamed ‘Bahubali’ for its sheer power, the LVM3-M5 mission placed the critical 4,410 kg CMS-03 spacecraft into a precise Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Sunday, November 2, 2025, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

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Mumbai

Researchers look for high-energy light from gravitational-wave candidates in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observation Runs with India’s AstroSat-CZTI

Kolkata

Researchers delved into the curious case of SXP 138, a pulsar in a binary star system whose cosmic clock is not ticking as predictably as expected.

Mumbai

IIT Bombay study says high energy gravitational waves might be the instigator of FRBs

Bengaluru

On April 26 2019, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer detected gravitational waves from a possible black hole-neutron star collision thought to have taken place 1.2 billion light years away. The event was observed by both LIGO observatories, based in Louisiana and Washington state in the USA, and the Virgo facility based in the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Italy.

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