Chandrayaan-3 lander makes another soft landing on lunar surface

The Vikram lander elevated itself by about 40 centimetres, and landed safely 30-40 centimetres away in a ‘hop experiment’, ISRO said.

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· Sep 04, 2023 · 02:02 pm

Chandrayaan-3 rover detects sulphur, other elements on the moon

The findings can provide more insights into the formation and evolution of the earth’s natural satellite.

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· Aug 30, 2023 · 10:07 am

Chandrayaan-3’s success belongs to all of humanity, says PM Modi

Congratulations poured in from around the world as the lunar mission marked India’s emergence as a space power.

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· Aug 23, 2023 · 09:01 pm

India’s Chandrayaan-3 lands successfully on the moon

With this feat, India becomes the first country to land near the moon’s south pole.

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· Aug 23, 2023 · 06:05 pm

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon

This was the country’s first lunar mission in almost half a century.

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· Aug 20, 2023 · 03:31 pm

Chandrayaan-3 lander completes final lunar orbital move

It will try a soft-landing on moon on August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.

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· Aug 20, 2023 · 02:05 pm

Chandrayaan-3: Vikram lander successfully separates from spacecraft

The Vikram lander will now attempt to soft-land on the South Pole region of the moon on August 23.

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· Aug 17, 2023 · 04:18 pm

Chandrayan-3 lifts off on mission to the moon

A successful soft landing on the moon would make India the fourth country to achieve this feat after the United States, the erstwhile Soviet Union and China.

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· Jul 14, 2023 · 02:36 pm

Chandrayaan-2 has completed one year, has seven years of fuel left, says ISRO

The agency added that the spacecraft was ‘healthy’ and subsystems were performing normally.

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· Aug 21, 2020 · 12:42 pm

Long before astronauts reached the moon, artists were already there – drawing and writing about it

Writers such as Jules Verne penned eerily accurate stories about space exploration, years before rockets took off from Earth.

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· Jul 16, 2019 · 11:30 pm

As China broadens its moon mission, will a manned lunar base be next?

Can China build a lunar base? Absolutely. But getting human beings survive on the moon and other planets in the long term will be a lot more complicated.

Joshua Chou, The Conversation

· Jan 27, 2019 · 11:30 pm

China says it has launched first-ever lunar probe to land on far side of the moon

The former Soviet Union and the United States have sent probes to explore the moon’s dark side, but their satellites did not land.

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· Dec 08, 2018 · 07:56 pm