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.

Remote Sensing

Jodhpur

This new effort provides a single, high-quality, and comprehensive database that maps the environmental, physical, and human landscapes of the catchments for all 5,715 large dams in the country.

Ranchi

New research using Earth Observation (EO) satellite data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides a comprehensive map of desertification vulnerability across Rajasthan, highlighting critical areas and key environmental and human factors driving land degradation.

Mumbai

IIT Bombay researchers build a new model, named AMVG, that bridges the gap between how humans prompt and how machines analyse satellite or remote sensing imagery.

Kharagpur

Researchers found that economic inequality, linked to higher crime rates in India, can be measured by the brightness of city lights as seen from space based satellites.

Mumbai

Researchers from IIT Bombay used LISS IV satellite imagery to map the Land use land cover changes to the Mumbai and Palghar mangroves and wetland areas.

Mumbai

The first-of-a-kind study has used remote sensing data to quantify long-term soil losses across the entire Western Ghats region.

Mumbai

A new algorithm removes effects of unintended motion from videos shot with small robots or drones

Mumbai

Researchers use radar data from satellites to estimate parameters that determine the growth of soy and wheat.

 

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