Topic: Chandrayaan-2
Unique exoplanets, moonquakes, underground lakes on Mars — the big space stories of 2019
China’s historic moon landing, detection of First Radio Bursts from outer space & interstellar visitors were other big stories from the world of space.
Aided by Indian techie, NASA finds crashed Vikram lander on the Moon
NASA has acknowledged it was able to identify the impact site and debris of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander after a tip from Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian.
2 months on, govt confirms Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander made ‘hard landing’ on lunar surface
Vikram hard landed within 500 m of the designated landing site, MoS in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh says in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.
ISRO plans second attempt at soft landing on Moon for November 2020
A senior ISRO official said the space agency was considering a Chandrayaan-3 mission and has tasked a committee with drawing up a report for the same by year end.
Discovery of water on moon: What India’s first Chandrayaan mission achieved a decade ago
Inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008, Chandrayaan-1 was instrumental in discovering water on the moon, and had a brief tiff with NASA over this.
ISRO releases first illuminated images of moon taken by Chandrayaan-2’s orbiter
ISRO has released details of data captured by two payloads — an infrared imager and a solar x-ray monitor.
ISRO not giving up on Vikram lander yet, efforts to reestablish communication still on
ISRO had suspended search operations 10 days ago when the lunar night began. The space agency lost contact seconds before Vikram Lander was scheduled to land on the moon.
All you want to know about the future of crashed Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram
The lunar night has officially begun over the Vikram landing spot. Here's what’s next with the orbiter, NASA’s camera, and ISRO.
India will send man to space by December 2021: ISRO chairman
K. Sivan says all technologies of the Chandrayaan-2 mission have proved accurate except for the soft landing.
Vikram lander dies today, but here’s how ISRO can ensure Chandrayaan-3 lives on
ISRO’s ambitious Vikram lander will die today as the lunar night sets in, two weeks after it went off the radar minutes before touchdown.
India and US must join hands during Covid-19 crisis, not increase nativist impulses
Katherine B. Hadda, former US consul general, Hyderabad, writes on the need for the US and India to unite during the Covid-19 crisis.
Modi’s 9-min candle plan Sunday: Needless spectacle or much-needed motivation for Indians?
PM Modi requested Indians to light candles, lamps or mobile torches at 9 pm Sunday for nine minutes in a show of solidarity in the fight against Covid-19.
Defence
IAF airlifts 6.2 tonnes of essential medicines, hospital consumables to Maldives
The consignment was airlifted to Male by an Indian Air Force C-130 aircraft, as part of 'Operation Sanjeevani'.
Modi’s India isn’t Mao’s China. Silly forecasts assume we’ll let corona kill millions of us
There are many scary scenarios about how badly we Indians may be affected or how many killed by Covid-19. But they presume we will do nothing to influence our fates.