India celebrated its first National Space Day on Friday, August 23. Exactly a year ago, on this day, India made history by becoming the first country to soft land on the Moon’s south pole, thanks to the Chandrayaan 3 mission and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). To mark this landmark achievement, India will now …
As India marks the first anniversary of the historic Chandrayaan-3 landing on the Moon, being celebrated as National Space Day, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief explained how the Pragyan rover detected minerals on the lunar surface. The Indian space agency has released stunning new images taken by the Pragyan rover to commemorate the …
Data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests that the Moon’s surface may have once been covered by a vast ocean of molten magma. The findings, recently published in the journal Nature, lend credence to the long-standing lunar magma ocean hypothesis, a theory that posits the Moon’s early surface was a sea of liquid rock. The analysis …
The Juice spacecraft from the European Space Agency (ESA) has completed a unique lunar-Earth flyby. It used Earth’s gravity to set course for Venus, taking a faster route toward Jupiter. On August 20, at 2:45 AM (India time), Juice made its closest pass by the Moon. This manoeuvre set it on course for its closest …
Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday announced that an Indian astronaut is set to journey to the International Space Station (ISS) by April next year as part of a NASA-ISRO collaboration. Group Captains Shubhanshu Shukla and Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, designated astronauts for this mission, are currently undergoing training in the United States for …
A long night awaited the Pragyan rover on the moon as it bid farewell to operators at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) one last time. The subzero temperatures proved too low for the suitcase-sized rover. Fourteen days after landing on the moon as part of India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission, the rover went to sleep …
An Indian astronaut is likely to fly to the International Space Station by April next year as part of the NASA-ISRO collaborative initiative, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. Two Indian astronaut-designates Group Captains Shubhanshu Shukla and Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair are undergoing training in the US for the Axiom Space Ax-4 mission. …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew down to Bengaluru on Saturday directly from the Greek capital of Athens to interact with ISRO scientists on the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission and announced the decision to name the place where lander Vikram touched down on the lunar surface as “Shiva Shakti Point”. Terming the success of Chandrayaan-3 mission as an …