The statement indicates that the funding will enable UK institutions to collaborate with space agencies such as ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
ISRO said that the data collected by the payloads is received at the Earth and the Payloads are now switched off. It is expected by ISRO that Vikram Lander and Pragyaan will awake again on around September 22.
Shivarama Krishna said he wanted to congratulate the ISRO by drawing the 3D picture of the lander at his residence in Manthani on Friday. He drew the painting taking seven hours.
Surat police in Gujarat are probing a city resident's claims that he was a scientist working with the ISRO and designed the lander module of the Chandrayaan-3 moon mission.
There was an atmosphere of ecstasy, joy and celebration at ISRO's Mission Operations Complex here, as the country's third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's lander module successfully made a touchdown on the lunar surface.
India will be the fourth country in the world to achieve this feat after the United States, Russia, and China, but India will be the only country in the world to land on the lunar south pole.
The space agency also said the Mission Operations Complex had now more routes to communicate with the lander. In other words, the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter will be the backup communication channel for ISRO with the lander.
The space agency has said the technically challenging soft landing on the lunar surface, which Chandrayaan-2 could not achieve, has been planned for 5.47 PM on August 23.
The common thread that runs between Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 missions is the soft landing of the lander on the lunar soil and the rover doing some chemical experiments.
Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays which opened up the possibility of mapping the amount of sodium on the moon, ISRO said.
Hyderabad: Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2), a payload onboard Chandrayaan-2, has made the first-of-its-kind discovery on the distribution of one of the noble gases, Argon-40. India launched Chandrayaan-2, its second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in July 2019. Major findings The gas found in the lunar exosphere is believed […]
Chennai: For the first time in its space exploration mission, an evasive measure was carried out recently to avoid the collision between Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and US’ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. According to ISRO, Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) LRA were predicted to come very close […]