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Topic: Chandrayaan

ThePrint Quiz, 23 August, 2025: National Space Day

On this National Space Day, take this quiz by ThePrint to test your knowledge of India’s space programme.

Late to launch, ISRO merch is now in orbit — magnets to Chandrayaan models

ISRO’s merch mission is finally flying high, offering everything from ‘Vikram Lander’ keychains to Chandrayaan scale models and Gaganyaan ‘spacesuits’. There are even Channapatna-style rocket kits.

Designs for Chandrayaan-4 & 5 ready, 1st ‘Gaganyatri’ flight by mid-2025, says ISRO chief Somanath

ISRO chief says Gaganyaan’s unmanned mission is being planned for December and rocket has reached Sriharikota, adds that design for Bharatiya Antariksha Station is complete.

‘CoWIN, Covaxin, 5G, Chandrayaan, components of Viksit Bharat’: Jaishankar at Dubai event

Addressing the Indian diaspora in Dubai, foreign minister stressed the importance of effectively communicating India's progress to the world, especially for those studying abroad.

After Moon, ISRO sets its eyes on Mars landing — ‘it’s an aspiration, work yet to begin’

ISRO chief S. Somanath details the agency’s planned missions, declines to comment on Chandrayaan-3, whose lander and rover were put to sleep when first lunar night set in.  

Khattar to woman who asked for factory in village: ‘I’ll send you on Chandrayaan-4, now sit down’

Haryana CM was holding Jan Samvad in Hisar where woman said a factory will generate jobs. AAP slams Khattar for 'making fun of public', Congress says 'no respect for women in BJP, RSS'.

‘Intrinsic, volcanic, meteoritic?’ asks ISRO as Chandrayaan-3 rover reconfirms sulphur on Moon

After finding the element on the Moon’s south pole on Tuesday in the first in-situ probe, Pragyan finds sulphur again with a different technique.

‘Work of a generation of scientists,’ says ISRO chairman on successful Chandrayaan-3 landing

President Droupadi Murmu & PM Narendra Modi both congratulate the ISRO team. India becomes 4th country to soft land on Moon surface & 1st to land on its south pole.

Chandrayaan 1, 2 & 3 — how ISRO used each Moon mission as test for next, more complex expedition

Chandrayaan-3 on a mission to explore & study Moon’s south pole, which is rich in water resources. First journey to lunar region that astronomers have wanted to explore for decades.

Aim is to achieve soft-landing on the moon, says ISRO chief on impending Chandrayaan-3 launch

Chandrayaan-2’s attempt to soft-land a robotic module named Vikram on the moon’s surface had failed in 2019.

On Camera

Bondi Beach attack holds lessons for India too — soft targets remain terror’s first choice

India’s counter-terror focus must go beyond organised modules to include individual radicalisation, mental health-linked violence, and spontaneous attacks in public spaces.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.