Bengaluru: Chandrayaan-3 ventured closer to the lunar surface on Monday with another successful maneuver of the spacecraft by ISRO, the national space agency said. The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said the spacecraft has now achieved a “near-circular orbit” around the Moon. Post its launch on July 14, Chandrayaan-3, the country’s ambitious third Moon mission, had entered…
Bengaluru: Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is getting ready for its launch soon, ISRO said on Monday. The satellite, realised at U R Rao Satellite Centre here, has arrived at the ISRO’s spaceport in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in an update on the mission….
Bengaluru: ISRO on Friday congratulated Russian space agency Roscosmos for the successful launch of its Moon mission Luna-25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. The Russian mission coincides with India’s third lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 as both landers target to land on Moon’s surface on August 23. India and Russia are both aiming to be…
Bengaluru: India’s ambitious third Moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-3’ spacecraft successfully underwent another orbit reduction maneuver on Wednesday, bringing it even closer to the Moon’s surface, ISRO said. Post its launch on July 14, Chandrayaan-3 entered into lunar orbit on August 5. “Even closer to the moon’s surface. Chandrayaan-3’s orbit is reduced to 174 km x 1437…
Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday said it has successfully carried out the orbit reduction manoeuvre of India’s third moon mission Chandrayaan-3, a day after inserting it into the lunar orbit. The space agency said it will carry out the next such operation on August 9. “The spacecraft successfully underwent a planned orbit…
Bengaluru: ISRO on Tuesday said India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its orbits around the Earth and is now heading towards the Moon. A key manoeuvre to slingshot the spacecraft towards the Moon from Earth’s orbit was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday. This move put Chandrayaan-3 in a translunar orbit moving…
Gurugram, India is playing a major role and could play an even bigger one in the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator that helps scientists understand the fundamental structure of matter, says European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientist Archana Sharma. The upgrade of the LHC — a 27-km…
Hyderabad: AIG Hospitals, one of India’s largest tertiary care centers, Tuesday flagged off a state-of-the-art vehicle equipped with latest technology for surgical training. This is being done with the collaboration with Johnson & Johnson. The vehicle starts its journey of 100 days covering 28 government and private medical institutions across 14 cities in 4 south-Indian…
Port of Spain: Virat Kohli reached close to a memorable hundred in his 500th International game after the West Indies put up a much needed fight to limit India to 288 for four at stumps on day one of the second Test here on Thursday. The opening duo of Rohit Sharma (80 off 143) and Yashasvi…
Hyderabad: Expressing his deep love and association with rockets, ISRO chairman S Somanath on Saturday said he considers the launch vehicles as babies. Somanath said he enjoyed the launch of Phase-I of Chandrayaan-3 on Friday, while adding that he had gone through the entire data and marvelled at “how beautiful the rocket was”. ISRO on Friday…
