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Partial lunar eclipse graces the sky
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): India on early Wednesday witnessed a partial lunar eclipse (ardh chandra grahan as it is called in Hindi) for few hours.
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Tirupati Balaji temple to remain closed tonight owing to lunar eclipse
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 16 (ANI): Lord Balaji temple here was closed on Tuesday evening in the wake of the lunar eclipse, and will remain closed through out the night.
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Portals of Badrinath closed due to a lunar eclipse
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], July 16 (ANI): Portals of the Badrinath temple have been closed ahead of the Lunar Eclipse. It will remain closed till 4:40 am Wednesday.
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Varanasi evening Ganga Aarti advanced due to lunar eclipse
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 16 (ANI): Varanasi's famed tradition of Ganga Aarti, the daily evening ritual at Dashashwamedh Ghat, has been advanced on account of the lunar eclipse on Tuesday.
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Chandrayaan-2 launch called off at right time: Former DRDO scientist
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientist Ravi Gupta lauded the decision to call off Monday's launch of the second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, saying it was done at the right time before the occurrence of any big mishap.
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Chandrayaan-2 launch called off due to technical snag
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 15 (ANI): In a last-minute revision of schedule, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that the launch of India’s second lunar mission ‘Ch
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Chandrayaan II is most complex mission: Former ISRO chief Nair
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Trivandrum [Kerala], July 14 (ANI): As India is gearing up to launch the second lunar spacecraft, former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair on Sunday said it is going to be the most complex space mission that India has undertaken so far.
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Chandrayaan II a very important and prestigious mission: ISRO Chairman
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 13 (ANI): Chandrayaan II is a very important and prestigious mission for India, said ISRO chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan on Saturday ahead of the lunar mission's launch on Monday.
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NASA selects SpaceX, Blue Origin, more to build next human lunar lander
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 17 (ANI): After receiving an additional USD 1.6 billion funding for its space programs, NASA has announced that it has selected 11 private companies to work with for building the next human landers for its Moon program.
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Ex-ISRO chief says Chandrayaan-2 will look for specific minerals on moon's
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 03 (ANI): Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2, which is scheduled to be launched between July 9 and 16, will look for specific minerals on the surface of the moon.
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India to launch Chandrayaan-2 in 2nd week of July
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 02 (ANI): India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to be launched between July 9 and 16, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced on Wednesday.
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Israeli spacecraft fails to make historic landing on moon
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Apr 12 (ANI): Beresheet, the Israeli moon spacecraft, which was the first privately-funded mission to the moon, on Thursday (local time) narrowly missed out a historic attempt to land on the lunar surface after the rover lost its main engine while attempting a soft land
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