Lunar Mission
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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.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Anne Collins Goodyear, The Conversation
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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
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Journalist Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV
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India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
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Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British
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Budget 2023: Why FM Nirmala Sitharaman is incentivising a shift to the new tax regime
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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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Half of all lunar missions have failed, Chandrayaan 2 is a calculated risk, says ISRO chief K Sivan
Sivan said this mission’s landing site on the Moon is a location where no other country has gone before.
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India’s Chandrayaan-II mission to the moon postponed again due to technical glitches: NDTV
The director of ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre, M Annadurai, said the lunar exploration mission is now likely to be launched only in 2019.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Bystander, police officer rescue driver moments before crashed car bursts into flames
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Watch: Bengaluru waiter effortlessly carries 16 plates of dosa, serves several customers at once
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Watch: Pakistani TV anchors are stunned by Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul’s lavish wedding gifts
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Watch: McDonald’s first automated outlet is open for business in Texas, US
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Watch: Woman caught on camera shoplifting in a bookstore in Jalandhar, Punjab
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India aims to send Chandrayaan-II to moon’s south pole this April
The unmanned mission packs in ‘more power than the Apollo missions by NASA’, the government said.
Scroll Staff
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Blue Origin plans to start Amazon-like delivery service to the moon by 2020, says Jeff Bezos
A lunar spacecraft will be built to help carry over 10,000 pounds of experimental gear and cargo along with people, he said.
Scroll Staff
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Isro conducts simulation tests for second Chandrayaan moon mission
Several craters resembling lunar terrain have been created on the research facility's grounds in Karnataka's Challakere.
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The Reel
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‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
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‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
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Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
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Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
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In Ranjan Palit’s new film, a ‘watchdog society’ filled with persecution and paranoia