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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Topic: Moon landing

Excitement on a rise: Prayers, parties planned for Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on the lunar south pole at 1234 GMT on Wednesday, days after failure of Russian vehicle trying to achieve the same feat.

‘Smooth sailing continuing’: ISRO ready for Chandrayaan-3 lander’s touchdown on 23 August

A successful landing on the moon’s south pole Wednesday will expand knowledge of lunar water ice, which is potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.

‘Lost communication’: Japan’s ispace concedes failure in bid to make first commercial moon landing

The first private moon landing failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander, with ispace concluding it had most likely crashed on the lunar surface.

NASA unveils document to guide behaviour on the moon and in space

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Unique exoplanets, moonquakes, underground lakes on Mars — the big space stories of 2019

China’s historic moon landing, detection of First Radio Bursts from outer space & interstellar visitors were other big stories from the world of space.

Chandrayaan-2 mission is not a ‘failure’, plenty of science expected from orbiter

India is anxiously waiting for official confirmation from ISRO on the fate of the Chandrayaan-2 lander, hours after the space agency lost communication with.

Chandrayaan-2 set to begin final descent — indigenous mission hours away from history

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is ready, Vikram lander has separated, all eyes are on Pragyan rover now. ThePrint details what the mission is expecting on the moon.

Vikram lander separates from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, now just days away from moon landing

The Vikram lander is preparing to perform a soft landing, which is expected to take place on 7 September between IST 1:30 am and 2:30 am.

The four stages Chandrayaan-2 will go through before it lands on the moon

Chandrayaan-2 was initially scheduled to be launched on 15 July, but was called off due to a technical snag in the launch vehicle system.

Updates: Chandrayaan-2 injected into Earth’s orbit, ISRO chief says task not done yet

ISRO successfully launched Chandrayaan-2 into space today after a technical glitch forced it to call off the event last week.

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

Resurgence in India’s air cargo expected to continue as Red Sea crisis crosses one-year mark

After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

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.