The Principal Scientist of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), P. Senthil Kumar, said on Monday that using the data sent by Chandrayaan 3, the institute will conduct research on the minerals, mud, and rocks on moon. Participating in a function at the Salem Government Arts College at Kumarasamipatti, Mr. Senthil Kumar said research was … Read more
Sonia Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on August 24 wrote to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath over the success of Chandrayaan-3, saying the space agency’s outstanding capabilities have been built up over decades and it being anchored on self-reliance since the early sixties has contributed to … Read more
=A combination of photos of the Moon shared by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as it was taken by the Lander Imager Camera-1 shortly after the separation from the propulsion module. | Photo Credit: ANI The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its second and final deebost in the early hours … Read more
Narendra Modi gifts a sandalwood sitar model to French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI Revised joint statement post Modi-Macron talks drops key points on defence deals India and France have revised the joint statement initially released after bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, with the new version released on Friday omitting key details on defence deals which … Read more
The Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 vehicle with Chandrayaan-3 being moved to the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota. File. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s third lunar mission, set for launch on July 14, is loaded with more fuel, a slew of safety measures and a bigger landing site, with ISRO saying … Read more
The rockets use powerful propulsion systems generating huge amounts of energy that overcome the Earth’s gravitational pull to lift heavy objects into space. On February 14, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the year’s first space mission — an earth observation satellite, EOS-04, along with two other smaller satellites. The space research agency used … Read more
During 2022, ISRO would be undertaking eight Launch Vehicle Missions, seven Spacecraft Missions, and four Technology Demonstrator Missions By Dr Ajey Lele The government has recently announced that the Department of Space (DoS) is planning for 19 missions for the year 2022. Owing to the Covid-19 phase during the year 2020 and 2021, ISRO was … Read more
The second plausible theory put forward by the Scientists is the benign and mediating effect of the Earth’s magnetotail. (Representative image) In a perplexing finding, scientists have found signs of rusting on the surface of the Moon which is understood to have no presence of air or water in liquid form, which are key components … Read more
Chennai: Space enthusiast Shanmuga Subramanian, who found the debris of India’s moonlander Vikram, said on Saturday that Chandrayaan-2’s rover Pragyan seems to be intact on the moon’s surface and had rolled out a few metres from the lander. In a series of tweets along with the pictures of the moon surface, Subramanian said: “Chandrayaan-2’s Pragyan … Read more