Tag: space exploration

Interview | Shubhanshu Shukla on his new book, ‘The Second Orbit’

July 13, 2026 admin

From the moment he was announced as one of the four astronaut-candidates for India’s maiden human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan, Air Force test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla has been a prolific science communicator. His social media feed is full of amusing yet enlightening quips, videos, and posts about what going to space has been like for him. In his…

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IIT Madras researchers on a mission to develop technologies for space exploration

January 23, 2025 admin

The microgravity tower at IIT Madras, the fourth largest operational facility in the world, installed on the campus in 2017 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement ExTeM, or Extraterrestrial Manufacturing, a centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras), found mention in the Prime Minister’s Maan Ki Baat recently. The PM said the…

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China launches lunar probe mission to collect samples for first time from far side of moon

May 3, 2024 admin

File picture of the lunar lander of the Chang’e-4 probe in a photo taken in 2019. | Photo Credit: AP China on May 3 launched a lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth for scientific studies. The Chang’e-6 mission is…

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Top ISRO Official On Gaganyaan Mission

October 8, 2023 admin

ISRO has started preparations for unmanned flight tests as part of the Gaganyaan mission. (File) Tiruchirappalli: After the successful Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L1 mission, India is now looking at human exploration in space. Chandrayaan-3 project director P Veeramuthuvel, while speaking on the Gaganyaan mission, said that a roadmap is there and the launch will be…

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