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.
By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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