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TopicChandrayaan-3

Topic: Chandrayaan-3

‘Gold-letter day’: Modi wishes Chandrayaan-3 all the best before blast off

The Prime Minister Tweeting also urged the people to know more about this mission and ‘the strides India had made in the space sector, science and innovation’.

Reach for the moon: ISRO scientists pray at Tirupati with mini Chandrayaan-3 ahead of launch

If everything goes to plan, India will become only the fourth country in the world to soft-land a rover on the moon’s surface after the US, China and former Soviet Russia.

ISRO readies moon mission aimed to stake claim as a space power

Built on a budget of just under $75 million, the Chandrayaan-3 is set to blast off from India's main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 2:35 p.m. local time.

‘Failure-based’: ISRO chief says Chandrayaan-3 will do it differently to land on moon surface

As the third installment of India’s moon mission kicks off on 14 July, all eyes are on whether it can put a lander on the moon.

Testing capabilities, setting stage for 2025 moon mission — what’s the purpose of Chandrayaan-3 

On 14 July, ISRO’s third moon mission will be launched from Sriharikota. Merely a tech demonstrator aimed at test landing and roving capabilities, it doesn’t carry sophisticated payloads

India’s next moon mission Chandrayaan-3 to take off on 14 July

Hopes are high that the orbiter will be able to soft-land a robotic module on the moon’s surface, which the previous mission had failed to do in 2019.

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.

Next moon mission Chandrayaan-3 will be launched 13 July afternoon

This is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.

Chandrayaan-3 likely to be launched in 2022, says ISRO chief K Sivan

The Covid lockdown has hit several projects of the ISRO including Chandrayaan-3, which was scheduled to be launched in late 2020, and Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission.

Chandrayaan-3 on track, 4 astronauts selected for Gaganyaan — ISRO spells out 2020 plan

ISRO chief K. Sivan confirms land acquisition has been initiated for 2,300-acre land in Tuticorin to build the country's second spaceport.

On Camera

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

After 19 years, the Bombay High Court finally held what governments and intelligence services have long known: The men sentenced for their role in the bombings had nothing to do with it.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.