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Daily Quiz: On Lunokhod 1 1971 Soviet postage stamp commemorates the spacecraft that delivered the world’s first successful planetary rover to the Moon START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | On which lunar ‘sea’ did Lunokhod 1 land? Answer : Mare Imbrium or Sea of Rains DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO SHOW ANSWER 2…
New Delhi: The US-India NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NISAR mission will observe the Earth down to the centimetre, monitoring its land and ice surfaces, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientist Paul Rosen said. The agreement was inked on 2014 to track changes in wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters through the…
The long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was called off for at least 24 hours over a technical glitch with the Atlas V rocket that was being readied to launch the new astronaut capsule to orbit on Monday night. The CST-100 Starliner’s inaugural voyage carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS)…
The Boeing Starliner was set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center. The launch of the Boeing Starliner, which was set to take astronaut Sunita Williams to space for a third time, has been postponed due to a technical glitch. No new date has been announced for the launch. Ms Williams, poster girl for…
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New Delhi: Six decades after its first rocket launch, India, with the success of its Chandrayaan-3 mission now has a surer footing in the field of space exploration and technology. But now, experts say is time the country came up with a national strategic vision on a space policy, boost space-tech, propel its space economy…
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The graph of temperature variation on lunar surface. Twitter/@isro ISRO on August 27 released a graph of the temperature variation on lunar surface with increase in depth measured by the ChaSTE payload onboard Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander module. According to the space agency, Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) measured the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil…