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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
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Topic: Lunar mission

Big projects, joint lunar station — ISRO chairman on potential of India-US space collaboration

After PM Modi, US President Biden is accelerating India-US collaboration in space technology, ISRO chairman S. Somanath says at an event attended by US Ambassador Eric Garcetti.

Mission with India to search for water on moon is on track, launch in few years — Japan space agency

Currently, lander for mission is awaiting approval from Department of Space. ISRO is responsible for developing lander for mission, while JAXA is handling rover & launch vehicle.

Russia blames malfunction in on-board control unit for failed lunar mission in August

State space corporation, Roscosmos, said the control unit failed to turn off propulsion system, which blasted for one and a half times longer as the craft hurtled towards moon.

China invites international collaborators for major lunar mission

China welcomes countries on its uncrewed Chang'e-8 mission to jointly explore the surface of the moon, according to CNSA's website.

Japan launches rocket carrying moon lander ‘SLIM’ into space after 3 delays last month

Dubbed the 'moon sniper', Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface. The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February.

Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander performs a rare ‘hop’ on the moon — why this matters

The lander performs a hop experiment on lunar surface, testing the tech of lifting off & landing on the moon — crucial for future missions to collect & return lunar samples to Earth.

Chandrayaan-3 Pragyan rover confirms presence of sulphur on lunar surface, says ISRO

It also said the instrument also detected aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen, as expected.

From Luna 9 to Chandrayaan-3 — tracing humankind’s tryst with lunar missions

Apollo 11 marked 1st crewed moon landing, while Luna 16 brought back lunar soil to Earth before Chandrayaan-3 became first to safely land near lunar South Pole.

Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: ‘Glad to be your partner’ — NASA tells ISRO after successful Moon mission

PM Modi spoke to ISRO Chief S Somanath and extended his congratulations following the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3.

Chandrayaan-3 touchdown: Role Vikram’s 2 cameras will play to soft-land it on lunar south pole

Vikram will begin its powered descent on the moon’s surface at 5.45 pm and the entire process will take nearly half an hour.

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India’s poor little rich people have it so bad. Money just can’t buy them freedom

There is terrible news for India’s one-percenters, who control '60% of India’s total wealth' — or $11.6 trillion in assets.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Centre appoints Army ex-vice chief Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani as military adviser to NSC Secretariat

New Delhi: Former Indian Army Vice Chief Lt Gen N.S. Raja Subramani (Retd) has been appointed the new Military Advisor (MA) to the National...

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.