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Bharatiya Antariksh Station To Have 5 Modules, ISRO to Launch First Base Module by 2028
4 months ago

Bharatiya Antariksh Station To Have 5 Modules, ISRO to Launch First Base Module by 2028

News 18  

The Bharatiya Antariksh Station will have as many as five modules, and the first base module will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organization by 2028, said chief S Somanath. Our plan is to have as many as five modules – all of which will then dock in space,” said the ISRO chairman, on the sidelines of the National …

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Daily Quiz | On lunar exploration mission
5 months ago

Daily Quiz | On lunar exploration mission

The Hindu  

Q: The landers of the Chandrayaan 2 and the Chandrayaan 3 missions both aimed for a patch on the moon’s surface between the craters X and Y, in the LQ30 quadrangle designated by the U.S. Geological Survey. A: Carlo Antonio Manzini Q: India’s first moon mission Chandrayaan 1 is credited with discovering water ice on the moon’s surface with two …

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NASA postpones landing astronauts on the moon until at least 2026
11 months, 2 weeks ago

NASA postpones landing astronauts on the moon until at least 2026

LA Times  

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher. Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday. The space agency had planned to send four astronauts …

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Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module moved from Moon orbit to Earth’s orbit, ISRO says 'returns to home'
1 year ago

Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module moved from Moon orbit to Earth’s orbit, ISRO says 'returns to home'

India TV News  

Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module: The Indian Space Research Organization said on the Vikram Lander, the Propulsion Module of Chandrayaan-3 was moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbit around the Earth. "In another unique experiment, like the hop experiment on the Vikram Lander, the Propulsion Module of Chandrayaan-3 was moved from an orbit around Moon to an orbit around …

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole
1 year, 4 months ago

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, the country’s Roscosmos space agency said Sunday. The pilotless spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to land on the south pole of the moon, an area where scientists believe there could be important reserves of frozen water and precious elements. The lunar …

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ISRO releases images of Moon captured by Chandrayaan-3's Lander
1 year, 4 months ago

ISRO releases images of Moon captured by Chandrayaan-3's Lander

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: In a series of meticulously executed manoeuvres, the Indian Space Research Organisation is moving closer to achieving a historic lunar landing feat with its Chandrayaan-3 rocket on August 23. On July 18, the third Earth-bound manoeuvre heightened the Apogee, the farthest point from Earth, propelling the spacecraft into an orbit measuring 51,400km x 228km. ISRO continued its strategy by …

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Race to Moon: Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander set to detach today; Luna-25 makes lunar orbit entry
1 year, 4 months ago

Race to Moon: Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander set to detach today; Luna-25 makes lunar orbit entry

Hindustan Times  

Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation lunar mission, has achieved a nearly circular orbit around the Moon. As Chandrayaan-3 continues to draw closer to its targeted lunar touchdown, another contender in lunar exploration, Luna-25, the Russian lunar mission launched just last week, has successfully entered lunar orbit and is gearing up for a soft landing attempt on the lunar surface …

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Ahead of Chandrayaan-3 lander’s soft landing ISRO assesses current situation around the moon
1 year, 4 months ago

Ahead of Chandrayaan-3 lander’s soft landing ISRO assesses current situation around the moon

The Hindu  

In the run-up to the Chandrayaan-3’s lander’s soft landing on the moon’s surface on August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation has carried out an assessment of the current space situation around the moon. It added that India’s Chandrayaan-3 is the latest entry into lunar orbit and more intensified activities around the moon are foreseen in the next few years …

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Chandrayaan-3 Mission: ISRO shares pictures of Earth and Moon. Check pics
1 year, 4 months ago

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: ISRO shares pictures of Earth and Moon. Check pics

India TV News  

After Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft moved closer to the Moon's surface as it underwent another orbit reduction maneuver, the ISRO on Thursday released a fresh set of pictures. India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 after its launch on July 14, entered into lunar orbit or the Moon's orbit on August 5. According to ISRO sources, there will be two more orbit …

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Chandrayaan-3 finishes fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre
1 year, 5 months ago

Chandrayaan-3 finishes fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre

The Hindu  

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday successfully completed the fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. The space agency said, “India celebrates International Moon Day 2023 by propelling Chandrayaan-3 step closer to the Moon. The fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre is performed successfully from ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru.” ISRO said Chandrayaan-3 had attained an orbit of 71351 km x 233 km orbit, as …

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Why Saturn's moons have been so hard to find
1 year, 5 months ago

Why Saturn's moons have been so hard to find

BBC  

Why Saturn's moons have been so hard to find Getty Images Enceladus is one of Saturn's larger moons and is thought to have an ocean beneath its icy crust Astronomers recently announced that they had discovered 62 new moons around the ringed planet Saturn and another has just been added to the list. In May this year, astronomers announced that …

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Future of space travel: Get set for a holiday in zero gravity
2 years, 3 months ago

Future of space travel: Get set for a holiday in zero gravity

Live Mint  

"Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing. The Earth is heating and crowding, resources are increasingly unevenly distributed, and there’s a sense that, at least among some people, there should be a plan-B planet.” Susmita Mohanty, director general of Spaceport SARABHAI, India’s first independent space think tank, says if humans are to make space settlements a …

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Earth to get mini moon in November or is it just space junk from 1960s?
4 years, 2 months ago

Earth to get mini moon in November or is it just space junk from 1960s?

India Today  

An asteroid, which is on track to be pulled into Earth's orbit, is likely to get stuck in it and become a "mini moon" in November 2020. However, Nasa asteroid experts believe that the "cosmic object", which is believed to become a "mini moon" for Earth in November after being nabbed by Earth's gravity, might actually be just junk from …

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Earth to get a mini-moon in November: NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket
4 years, 2 months ago

Earth to get a mini-moon in November: NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

Firstpost  

The object appears to be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission decades ago, finally making its way back to Earth. “It’s been a hobby of mine to find one of these and draw such a link, and I’ve been doing it for decades now.” Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the …

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Extraterrestrial object coming home? ‘Asteroid’ nearing Earth may be old NASA rocket
4 years, 2 months ago

Extraterrestrial object coming home? ‘Asteroid’ nearing Earth may be old NASA rocket

LA Times  

The jig may be up for an “asteroid” that’s expected to get nabbed by Earth’s gravity and become a mini-moon next month. What caught Chodas’ attention is that its near-circular orbit around the sun is quite similar to Earth’s — unusual for an asteroid. A mystery object in 1991, for example, was determined by Chodas and others to be a …

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