The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the American space agency NASA has captured an image of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site. The spacecraft is currently near the moon’s south pole since its successful soft landing on August 23.
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sculpture at Puri beach and dedicated it to Lord Krishna and India’s achievements on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami.
The Indian Space Research organisation on Tuesday put out a 3-dimensional ‘anaglyph’ image of the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander from the south pole of the Moon.
On the upcoming Gaganyaan mission, the Director said, “Gaganyaan is a prestigious and challenging program. We will take the scientists in the launch vehicle to the Earth's lower orbit, at 350- 400 lakh kms, and place them in the orbit for a couple of days, before bringing them back safely.”
The exhibition installed panels explaining the objectives, insights, and trajectory of the mission. Visuals of the centre show viewers and science aspirants enthusiastically watching the exhibition and listening to the mission in the planetarium.
"Aditya-L1 Mission: The second Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. ISTRAC/ISRO's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km," ISRO said in a post
On August 23, India took a giant leap as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the Moon’s South Pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat and bringing to an end the disappointment over the crash landing of the Chandrayaan-2, four years ago
Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh launched targeted attacks on Rahul Gandhi and said that where the successful landing of ‘Chandrayaan-3’ is taking place, ‘Rahul Yaan’ is not being launched for the last twenty years.
Her last announcement was on July 30, when a PSLV-C56 rocket was launched from Sriharikota, a fortnight after the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was successfully lifted off for the moon mission.
In a major development, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that the ‘Vikram Lander’ has been set into sleep mode at around 08 AM (Indian Standard Time) on Monday morning.
India is at the crossroads of realising resilient economic growth for its people during the next 25 years - what the government has described as the country's "Amrit Kaal".