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India gears up for historic moon mission with Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 mission aims to land a robotic rover on the moon's south pole, unveiling potential water ice deposits and paving the way for future space station endeavours.

‘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.

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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’

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