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The Dark Side of the Moon, 23 August 2023: The portion of Chandrayaan-3’s landing site taken after by Vikram Lander after the successful landing. | Photo Credit: ISRO/The Hindu India’s space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, a mission that could advance India’s space ambitions and expand knowledge of…
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Sonia Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hogging the limelight after the success of Chandrayaan-3. In a letter to the ISRO Chairman, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi said she was writing to him to let him know how thrilled she was by the ISRO’s magnificent…
File picture of President Droupadi Murmu. | Photo Credit: ANI President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday congratulated the ISRO over the successful deployment of the Chandrayaan 3’s Pragyan Rover. The deployment took place a few hours after the successful landing of the Lander Module. The Rover was inside the belly of the Lander Module. “I once…
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A dish antenna is seen inside the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) facility on August 23, 2023 in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Getty Images With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, successfully landing on the surface of moon on August 23, the focus has now moved to the rover in its belly, Pragyan….
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launches the LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission, lift off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre-SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on July 14, 2023 | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM India became the first nation to successfully land a craft on the Moon’s south pole on August 23,…
India has become the fourth country to successfully land on the moon as the Chandrayaan-3’s lander module, with the rover in its belly, successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface on Wednesday. Precisely at 6.03 p.m. the lander touched the lunar surface and there were euphoric celebrations at the Mission Operations Complex (MOX)…
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July 14: LVM3 M4 vehicle successfully launches Chandrayaan-3 into orbit from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Chandrayaan-3 starts its journey into precise orbit. July 15: First orbit-raising manoeuvre (Earthbound firing-1) successfully performed from ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru. The spacecraft is in 41762 km x 173 km orbit. July 17: Second orbit-raising manoeuvre performed. Spacecraft is in 41603 km…
Students in Surat hold a banner wishing successful landing of Chandrayaan-3’s on Moon’s surface | Photo Credit: PTI The Centre has asked all universities and higher education institutions, including IITs and IIMs, to organise special assemblies to watch the live-streaming of Chandrayaan-3’s landing on Moon. “The landing of India’s Chandrayaan-3 is a monumental occasion that…
Q: Twilight is the light visible above the horizon when the sun is below the horizon. It is civil twilight when the sun is 6º below the horizon; X twilight when 12º below; and astronomical twilight when 18º below. Name X. A: Nautical twilight Q: At astronomical twilight in the evening, Y becomes visible in…
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Students of Everwin School with their faces painted with Moon celebrate the pre-soft landing of Chandrayaan-3, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: PTI It is not only Tamil Nadu’s sons of the soil – former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Chandrayaan-2 Mission Director Mayilsamy Annadurai, and Chandrayaan-3 Project Director Veeramuthuvel P – who have contributed to…
