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Aditya L-1 success won’t stop project director Nigar Shaji. Next mission Chandrayaan-4 & Venus

Shaji has been the Aditya mission’s director since 2016, bringing together instruments like coronographs, spectrometers, and magnetometers from various academic institutes and other ISRO centres.

Indian space economy could grow to $44 billion by 2033, says IN-SPACe chairman Pawan Goenka

At present, the Indian space economy is valued at around USD eight billion with a 2 per cent share in the global space economy, but can reach 8 per cent by 2033, Goenka added.

‘Chandrayaan-3 success opened world’s eyes…’ — India, France forge alliance in private space sector

MoU, aimed at enhancing understanding of space industry capabilities and increase awareness of business opportunities between the countries, signed first day of Indian Space Conclave.

India’s solar mission Aditya-L1 has ‘successfully escaped sphere of Earth’s influence’

Data collected around L1 spacecraft would provide insights into origin, acceleration, and anisotropy of solar wind and space weather phenomena, says ISRO.

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.  

‘No signals received,’ says ISRO as space agency tries to wake up moon mission’s lander, rover

The solar-powered Vikram and Pragyan were put to sleep on 4 September after working on the lunar surface for one moon day or 14 earth days.

Fairly good chance that Vikram & Pragyan will wake up on moon, says former ISRO chief

Though it has already declared the mission a success, ISRO will try to establish communication with the two modules on 21 and 22 September.

Aditya-L1 gets ‘send off’ from Earth’s orbit after ISRO performs key manouevre

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), located roughly 1.5 million km from earth.

India’s first solar mission spacecraft Aditya L-1 commences collecting scientific data, says ISRO

The national space agency said that the sensors on STEPS instrument began measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth.

A Tamil Nadu village and its precious soil put Chandrayaan-3 on moon. Now, farmers are scared

The mineralogy, chemistry, grain size and geotechnical properties of Sithampoondi’s soil resemble moon soil.

On Camera

3 survey results that tell us what Indians think about democracy — and it’s not a simple story

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Indian Coast Guard’s pollution control vessel visits Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei

The ICG Samudra Paheredar will be in the region for three days, visiting ports in Manila, Ho Chi Minh, and Muara.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.