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India's Chadrayaan-3 set for Moon touchdown today

Aug 23, 2023, at 02:23 pm

The nation will pray together on Wednesday as the country's third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the surface of the Moon later in the evening.

Chandrayaan-3 mission on schedule, sailing smooth for soft landing tomorrow: ISRO

Aug 23, 2023, at 01:24 am

Chennai,/IBNS:  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Tuesday said the Chandrayaan-3 mission is on schedule and sailing smoothly for a soft landing on the South Polar Region of the Moon on Wednesday evening.

'Welcome buddy': Chandrayaan 3 gets special message from predecessor's orbiter

Aug 22, 2023, at 02:28 am

Days before Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram is set to touch down on the surface of the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Monday said that it has established a two-way-communication with the orbiter of the mission's predecessor-Chandrayaan 2.

ISRO announces Moon landing date, and time of Chandrayaan-3

Aug 21, 2023, at 04:04 am

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday announced that the soft landing of the third Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-3 will take place at 1804 hrs on Aug 23.

DRDO's drone crashes in Karnataka village, investigation undergoing

Aug 21, 2023, at 01:02 am

Bengaluru: A Tapas drone, which is being developed by DRDO, crashed on Sunday in a trial flight in a village of Chitradurga district.

Luna-25: Russia's first lunar mission in four decades crashes into the Moon

Aug 20, 2023, at 09:53 pm

Moscow: Russia's lunar exploration mission, Luna-25, which marked the country's return to the Moon after over four decades, has crashed during pre-landing maneuvers, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.

Chandrayaan-3 successfully completes final orbital manoeuvre; to land on Moon next

Aug 20, 2023, at 09:00 am

Bengaluru: Chandrayaan-3 successfully completed its final de-boosting operation in the early hours of Sunday, as scientists closely monitored the critical phase ahead of its landing on the lunar surface two days later on Wednesday.

Chandrayaan-3: ISRO shares first video of moon captured by Vikram lander

Aug 18, 2023, at 11:12 pm

ISRO on Friday shared a video of the moon, which was captured by Vikram lander after successfully detaching from the spacecraft's propulsion module.

Chandrayaan-3: Deboosting operation of Lander Module orbit successful, says ISRO

Aug 18, 2023, at 10:13 pm

Chennai: Deboosting operation to descend the Lander Module (LM) to a lower orbit of the Chandryaan-3 spacecraft was successfully performed at 1600 hrs on Friday, ISRO announced.

Assam Agricultural University revolutionised tea powder industry, benefiting farmers and consumers

Aug 18, 2023, at 07:54 am

Guwahati/IBNS: Assam Agricultural University (AAU) has introduced a pioneering technology that produces tea powder from raw tea leaves. 

Chandrayaan-3 ready to touch lunar surface as propulsion module successfully separates from lander

Aug 17, 2023, at 09:41 pm

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved a notable milestone in its Chandrayaan-3 mission by successfully detaching the spacecraft's propulsion module from the lander.

Chandrayaan-3 orbit reduced further, lunar bound manoeuvre over, PM and LM to get separated tomorrow

Aug 16, 2023, at 06:35 pm

Chennai/UNI: The Lunar bound manoeuvre  of India's third moon Mission Chandrayaan-3 was completed on Wednesday by reducing its orbit for the fourth time setting the stage for separation of Lander Module (LM) from the Propulsion Module (PM) and from the spacecraft tomorrow.

Arctic warming experiment: NASA announces launch service

Aug 16, 2023, at 04:00 pm

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has said it selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to provide the launch service for the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to give researchers a more accurate picture of the energy entering and leaving Earth.

Aditya-L1: ISRO gearing up to launch its first Solar mission

Aug 14, 2023, at 07:14 pm

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for the launch of Aditya-L1 Solar Exploratory mission to study the Sun.

Second Chandryaaan-3 orbit reduction maneuver tomorrow

Aug 09, 2023, at 01:53 am

Chennai/IBNS/UNI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will perform yet another crucial manoeuvre on Wednesday afternoon to further reduce the orbit of its third Lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft and take it even closer to the moon.

Russia's Luna-25 in race with India's Chandrayaan-3 to become first in reaching Moon's south pole

Aug 08, 2023, at 06:19 pm

Russia is likely to clash with India's Chandrayaan-3 launching Luna-25 to reach the south pole of the Moon, media reports said.

SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites into the orbit

Aug 08, 2023, at 08:57 am

Washington/IBNS: SpaceX Monday announced the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The launch took place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station located in Florida, the United States.

ISRO shares first video of Chandrayaan 3 meeting the Moon

Aug 07, 2023, at 03:06 pm

The  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday released the first video of the moon as viewed by  Chandrayaan-3, a day after the country's lunar mission entered the orbit of it.

'This is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity': Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters lunar orbit

Aug 06, 2023, at 03:32 am

Bengaluru: India's third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered the lunar orbit on Saturday, the ISRO said.

Chandrayaan-3 covered 2/3rds of distance to the Moon, to enter Lunar Orbit tomorrow: ISRO

Aug 05, 2023, at 02:13 am

Chennai/IBNS/UNI: Marking yet another milestone in its third Moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Friday said the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the Earth's satellite.

ISRO successfully launches 7 Singapore satellites with PSLV-C56 in a textbook lift off

Jul 30, 2023, at 06:16 pm

Sriharikota/IBNS/UNI: In a dedicated commercial mission, ISRO's workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-C56 on Sunday successfully launched seven Singapore satellites, including the primary payload DS-SAR, a Radar Imaging Earth Observation satellite, from the spaceport of SHAR Range, in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.

Siberian permafrost: Worm revived after 46,000 years

Jul 29, 2023, at 07:47 pm

When Anastasia Shatilovich at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia revived two frozen individual nematodes from a fossilized burrow in silt deposits in the Siberian permafrost, she and her colleagues were beyond excited.

Chandrayaan-3 Orbit raised further, moves a step closer to Moon

Jul 21, 2023, at 02:34 am

Chennai/IBNS: India Thursday celebrated International Moon Day-2023 by propelling its third Moon Mission Chandrayaan-3--to explore the hitherto unexplored Lunar south pole--a step closer to the moon by raising its orbit for the fourth time.

Chandrayaan-3's health normal: ISRO updates after successful orbit-raising manoeuvre

Jul 16, 2023, at 04:55 am

New Delhi: Scientists successfully executed the initial orbit-raising manoeuvre of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Saturday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

Chandrayaan-3 lift-off recorded from plane window, video now goes viral

Jul 15, 2023, at 11:37 pm

Chennai: A historic sight of Chandrayaan-3's launch from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Friday was caught on camera by a passenger who was flying on a flight.

Critical motor for ISROs Chandrayaan-3 moonshot by Sona College of Technology researchers

Jul 15, 2023, at 02:33 pm

Bengaluru: As the world’s eyes are glued to the launch of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) indigenous spacecraft to the moon, Chandrayaan-3, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, researchers at Sona College of Technology, Salem will follow the event with bated breath.

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft integrated with launch vehicle: ISRO

Jul 06, 2023, at 01:14 am

Chennai/IBNS/UNI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday announced that the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was integrated with the Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3).

IAEA: Europe’s largest nuclear power plant regains back-up electricity feed

Jul 04, 2023, at 10:09 pm

New York: The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine is now reconnected to its only back-up power line after four months, but the power situation at the site remains “highly vulnerable”, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday.

Tripura: Government-run college is working hard to scientifically produce giant prawns

Jul 01, 2023, at 11:08 pm

Agartala’s College Tilla is trying to make a revolution in the state and has emerged as a  scientific breeding ground for a specific species of fish that has huge demand in the local market of Tripura.

UN space agency vigilant over threat posed by ‘near-Earth objects’

Jun 30, 2023, at 10:58 pm

New York: With over 18,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) lurking beyond the stratosphere, 2,000 of which are classified as potentially hazardous, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is using Friday’s International Asteroid Day to raise awareness across the planet.