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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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’

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 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.

Assam: Digboi native emerges as leading scientist, making groundbreaking battery invention

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

Digboi/Assam: Digboi's Anirban Chakraborty, a rising star in the field of science, recently been offered a prestigious role as a designated scientist at a renowned university's Research Laboratory in Texas, USA, where he is conducting groundbreaking research on batteries.  

Indian scientists refute earlier find of fossil of earliest animal in Madhya Pradesh's Bhimbetka

Sep 08, 2024, at 11:50 pm

New Delhi: Indian scientists have proved that the Indian Dickinsonia fossil that had been originally reported from UNESCO World Heritage Site Bhimbetka Cave Shelter in earlier research in 2021, was actually a left-over impression of a fallen beehive, not a true fossil, Ministry of Science & Technology said on Friday.