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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Russian lunar mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, and more broadly with the US and China.
In a welfare state, the rule of law has been defiled and public opinion and sovereignty are being superseded by the undemocratic decrees of the ministers, wrote GN Lawande in 1958.
76% of Centre’s deregulation reforms implemented across states under Phase-I of compliance reduction exercise. Several states & UTs adopted flexible land use, 3rd party inspections, labour reforms.
Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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