India’s batting coach, Vikram Rathour, has thrown his support behind a struggling Rajat Patidar ahead of the fourth Test against England, set to commence on February 23 in Ranchi. Patidar has endured a challenging start to his Test career, tallying just 46 runs at an average of 11.50 across two matches. India’s players celebrate after …
A NASA spacecraft, currently orbiting the Moon, sent laser beams to a tiny mirror-based instrument onboard Vikram, and successfully received the reflected beams, thus verifying the possibility of a new way to precisely locate objects on the Moon. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been going around the Moon since June 2009, had performed …
BENGALURU: For the first time on the Moon, NASA transmitted and reflected a laser beam between an orbiting spacecraft it operates and a device —Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)— on Isro’s Vikram lander on the lunar surface, opening the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon’s surface.“At 3pm (EST) on Dec …