Key figures include Chandrayaan-3 project director as well as ISRO chairman & directors of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, U R Rao Satellite Centre & Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
Attempted landings on the moon have failed before. Russia's Luna-25 craft had been scheduled to land on the south pole this week but spun out of control on approach and crashed.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath had said the most critical part of the landing will be the process of reducing the velocity of the lander from 30 km height to the final landing.
Launched on 14 July, Chandrayaan-3 mission aims to put the Vikram lander softly at the lunar south pole. The process will start at approximately 5.45 pm IST Wednesday.
The seemingly sudden competition to get to a previously unexplored region of the moon recalls the space race of the 1960s when the United States and the Soviet Union competed.
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.
On 14 July, ISRO’s third moon mission will be launched from Sriharikota. Merely a tech demonstrator aimed at test landing and roving capabilities, it doesn’t carry sophisticated payloads
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.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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