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Social media and private partnership: inside the changes at India’s space agency

September 30, 2023 admin

When the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream – a record for the site. The landing was a win for India’s low-cost space engineering, and science, as well as a quiet initiative to rebrand India’s 54-year-old space agency…

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Racing for Moon real estate

September 7, 2023 admin

Last month, Meena Bishnoi bought an acre on the Moon. It wasn’t the thrill of buying land in space that drove her though; the nursing officer at AIIMS Jodhpur had something more significant in mind. In early August, the 30-year-old was discussing Chandrayaan-3’s prospective landing with a friend in Ireland, when the friend suggested gifting…

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Watch | Chandrayaan-3’s journey from the Moon’s orbit to its surface

September 6, 2023 admin

File picture of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023. This monumental achievement firmly cemented India’s position as one major players in the space community. Since then Chandrayaan-3 has found sulphur, a temperature difference of 50°C between the surface and 10…

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Chandrayaan-3 | Pragyan rover rolled out, traverses 8 metres

August 25, 2023 admin

A series of pictures appearing the rollout of Chandrayaan-3 rover Pragyan from the lander to the lunar floor as seen through Lander Imager Digital camera on August 23, 2023. Picture: X/@isro by way of PTi Giving a much-awaited glimpse of Pragyan rover at the lunar floor, the Indian Range Analysis Organisation (ISRO) on Friday stated…

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Google celebrates India’s Chandrayaan-3 feat with special doodle

August 24, 2023 admin

Search engine giant Google on August 24 celebrated India’s success in its third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special animated doodle. India scripted history on August 23 with its touchdown on the lunar south pole, making it the first nation to land on the uncharted surface. With this achievement, India was propelled into an exclusive…

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President Murmu congratulates ISRO for successful deployment of Pragyan Rover

August 24, 2023 admin

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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Chandrayaan-3 | India lights up the dark side of the moon

August 23, 2023 admin

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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Chandrayaan-3 live updates | Vikram lander successfully lands on Moon; India becomes 4th country to make soft landing on lunar surface

August 23, 2023 admin

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…

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Chandrayaan-3 | Not just sons of Tamil Nadu but State’s soil itself contributed to Moon mission

August 23, 2023 admin

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…

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What next for ISRO after Chandrayaan-3 mission?

August 22, 2023 admin

Representational image of a launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota | Photo Credit: PTI A mission to study the Sun, and launching a climate observation satellite, a test vehicle as part of Gaganyaan human space flight programme and an Indo-US synthetic aperture radar — ISRO has a packed schedule following the highly anticipated…

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