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S Somanath was appointed as ISRO Chairperson in January 2022. Bengaluru: The triumph of Chandrayaan-3 – India’s Moon mission – was the result of tens of thousands of hours of research and analysis by hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians, who guided the nation to space history last month after the Vikram lander soft-landed near…
He called the Chandrayaan-2 mission “a very hard learning” for the organisation. New Delhi: All the scientific instruments in Chandrayaan-3 were deployed, and the team is satisfied with the data that was collected, S Somanath, Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the person who spearheaded the team for Chandrayaan-3, said. The data…
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A 3D image of the Vikram lander. ISRO created the image by using the anaglyph technique. Anaglyph is a simple visualization of the object or terrain in three dimensions from stereo or multi-view images. Photo: X/@isro via PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking to awaken the Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover…
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Nawaz Sharif has announced his return to Pakistan on October 21. (Reuters File Photo) Lahore: Pakistan’s self-exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that his country is begging money from the world while India has reached the moon and hosted the G20 summit, blaming the country’s former generals and judges for its economic mess….
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The G20’s unprecedented success sent a message of a bright future for India, said the Prime Minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the special session of parliament starting today “may be brief but would be big on occasion”, adding that it would be a session of “historic decisions”. In his remarks just before the session,…
Chandryaan-3 landed near the moon’s south pole on August 23. YouTube chief Neal Mohan has congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) setting a streaming record with the launch of Chandrayaan-3. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), YouTube India said the August 23 live stream of the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon was…
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The story so far: Scripting history, the Chandrayaan-3 lander landed in the south polar region of the moon on August 23 at 6:03 pm IST, making India the first country to successfully soft-land in that area. The Vikram lander along with the Pragyan rover have since completed a small suite of surface tests. China’s Yutu-2…
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The story so far: In a historic feat, the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down near the south pole of the moon on August 23. The landing follows on the heels of Russia’s failure to land its Luna-25 on the lunar south pole after it crashed owing to an engine malfunction. This was closely followed on September 2,…
The story so far: In a historic feat, the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down near the south pole of the moon on August 23. The landing follows on the heels of Russia’s failure to land its Luna-25 on the lunar south pole after it crashed owing to an engine malfunction. This was closely followed on September 2,…
On July 22, 2019, India successfully launched Chandrayaan-2, the second mission to the moon. Twenty-two days later (August 14), after a series of orbit raising manoeuvres, the spacecraft finally escaped the earth’s gravity and followed a path towards the moon. Six days later, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into lunar orbit. Finally, on September 2, the…
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