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- India
All set for India’s moon lander to touch down on lunar soil
Chennai: India’s moon lander is all set to make a landing on the lunar soil on August 23, 2023 evening as the final deboosting operation got over in the wee hours of…
- Bangalore
Chandrayaan-3: India’s lander gets closer to Moon by reducing its orbit
Chennai: Indian space agency on Friday said it had successfully taken the country’s moon lander closer to the Moon by reducing its orbit. The Moon lander or the lander is part of…
- Bangalore
ISRO releases images of the Moon captured by Chandrayaan-3’s Lander
Bengaluru: ISRO on Friday released a set of visuals of the Moon captured by cameras positioned on the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. The images, captured after the separation of the Lander…
- Opinions
Who will the Moon welcome first: India’s Chandrayaan 3 or Russia’s Luna 25?
Before India could celebrate being the first country in the world to land a spacecraft on the south pole of Moon, Russia seems to have put a dampener by being ready to…
- India
Chandrayaan-3 moves closer to moon, lander to separate tomorrow
Chennai: Moving India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft closer to the moon on Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the lander module is slated for separation from the propulsion module on Thursday. “Today’s…
- Featured News
India, Russia in race to land on the Moon
Will the ‘slow and steady’, Chandrayaan-3 soft land on the South Pole of the Moon first or the ‘fast flying’, Luna-25 spacecraft of Russia achieve the distinction? This is the question that…
- India
Chandrayaan-3 closer to moon after ISRO performs orbit reduction manoeuvre
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…
- India
Chandrayaan-3: Next stop Moon with successful insertion into TransLunar orbit
Chennai: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday successfully injected the Chandrayaan 3 — spacecraft to the moon — into the TransLunar orbit, an official said. “Chandrayaan-3 completes its orbits around the…
- Science
Study shows ‘Man in the Moon’ craters 200 mn years old than thought
London: Scientists have ‘reset the clock’ for craters on the Moon, meaning that parts of its surface — which characterise the children’s story of the Man in the Moon — are around…
- World
June 29 or 30: When is New Zealand going to celebrate Eid Al Adha?
Confusion prevails in New Zealand over the date of the Eid Al Adha festival. While the South Auckland Muslim Association (SAMA) decides to celebrate the festival on Friday, June 30, the New…
- Science
NASA’s CAPSTONE images Moon, successfully tests GPS-like technology
Washington: NASA’s CAPSTONE mission — a microwave oven-sized CubeSat — captured its first images of the Moon, showing the lunar surface near the Moon’s North Pole. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology…
- Middle East
Sheikh Mohammed shares clearest image of Mars’ moon Deimos
Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has shared the clearest image ever taken of Mars moon Deimos. On…
- India
Moon sighted, India to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday
Hyderabad: India is all set to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday, as the crescent moon has been sighted today. This marks the end of the holy month of Ramzan, which is observed by…