"Moonshots achieve success! Kudos to @narendramodi, @ISRO, and the Indian scientists for their historic accomplishment - the first successful landing at the South Pole of the Moon," Gates shared on X (formerly Twitter).
The Chandrayaan-3 mission consists of a propulsion module (with a weight of 2,148 kg), a lander (weighing 1,723.89 kg), and a rover (with a mass of 26 kg).
According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the flight acceptance hot test of a CE-20 engine was successfully carried out for a duration of 25 seconds in the High Altitude Test facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex at Mahendragiri.
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: Students and faculty of the Anurag University, Hyderabad, have embarked on a journey to launch a satellite named ANURAGsat this year. Over 200 students will develop, build, integrate, test, launch and monitor the satellite using hands-on experience under the supervision of faculty and global space tech organizations. The satellite will be put into Earth’s […]
As per the work order issued by the Varanasi Smart City, the trial will be for five days and it may also ask Garuda Aerospace to carry out sanitisation operation using drones.
New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successful launch of various satellites and wished them many successful launches in the future. India’s Polar rocket on Sunday successfully launched Amazonia-1 of Brazil and 18 other satellites from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota, in the first […]
