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First Pics Of India Gaganyaan Craft Which Will Take Humans To Space In 2024

October 7, 2023 admin

ISRO will soon start unmanned flight tests for the Gaganyaan mission. New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today released pictures of the Gaganyaan spacecraft which is set to take humans to space in December 2024. The space agency also said that they will soon start unmanned flight tests for the mission. “ISRO to…

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Gaganyaan mission | ISRO to commence unmanned flight tests; preparations under way for TV-D1

October 7, 2023 admin

Preparations are on for the Gaganyaan Mission’s Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1), which is likely to be launched by the end of October 2023. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which is planning to commence uncrewed flight tests for the Gaganyaan mission, has started to make preparations for the…

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ISRO’s Satellite Images Show How Sikkim’s Lhonak Lake Burst, Caused Floods

October 4, 2023 admin

A satellite image of Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim. New Delhi: Nearly 65 per cent of Sikkim’s Lhonak Lake – around 105 hectares – has been drained after a cloudburst forced the water body to overflow and trigger flash floods in the Teesta River. Temporal satellite images (referring to before-and-after) released Wednesday evening by space…

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India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft successfully escapes sphere of Earth’s influence

September 30, 2023 admin

Aditya-L1 Mission: The fourth Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully. ISRO’s ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation, while a transportable terminal currently stationed in the Fiji islands for Aditya-L1 will support post-burn operations. | Photo Credit: ANI ISRO said on Saturday the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has travelled…

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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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Social Media And Private Partnership

September 29, 2023 admin

ISRO has hit recent highs, becoming the first nation to land a rover on the moon’s south pole. Bengaluru: 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…

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95% of space-components in Indian rockets are indigenous: S Somanath

September 26, 2023 admin

S Somanath, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | Photo Credit: The Hindu Nearly 95% of the components used in the rockets, including those used in Chandrayaan 3 mission, were made in India and were a result of several years of development involving the Indian Space Research Organisation and Indian industries, S Somanath, Chairman, Indian…

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ISRO Chief Recalls Challenges In Career

September 25, 2023 admin

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…

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Chandrayaan-3 Updates, ISRO: “Satisfied With Data”

September 23, 2023 admin

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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ISRO hoping to wake up Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram and Pragyan on September 22

September 21, 2023 admin

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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