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India set to launch second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 in July, landing by September

Sandhya Ramesh -
The ISRO has announced the Rs 800-crore mission will be launched on the new and powerful GSLV-Mk-III, and will consist of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.

ISRO pushes launch of Chandrayaan-2 to July

PTI -
ISRO's launch of the Chandrayaan-2, initially set for April, was postponed after Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashed during moon landing early this month.

First ever quake detected on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander

Sandhya Ramesh -
The detection of the quake has come in the form of a rumbling from inside the silent planet.

The moon is becoming a hot destination for carmakers

Bloomberg News -
Car companies in China and Japan are working with aerospace projects to build vehicles that could explore the moon in the next decade.

Russian cosmonaut who pulled off first spacewalk today 54 years ago beat death many times

Sandhya Ramesh -
Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space on 18 March 1965, but the return to Earth of him and his partner was nothing short of a miracle.

First private moon mission set for take off this week, to send selfie after April landing

Sandhya Ramesh -
Israel's 'Genesis' will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, this Friday.

China sends off Chang’e-4 for historic mission to the far side of the moon

Sandhya Ramesh -
Expected to land in January, Chang’e-4 will be the world’s first spacecraft to land on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth.

First moon outside the solar system found. It’s the size of Neptune

Sandhya Ramesh -
The ‘exomoon’ was found orbiting exoplanet Kepler-1625b — around 4,000 light years away from earth — by two Columbia University astronomers.

Get ready tonight for the longest lunar eclipse and a view of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Sandhya Ramesh -
The vision can be witnessed from anywhere in India, and will begin at 1 am and end at 2.43 am.

Should India lead the way and set up a colony on the moon or focus on Mars instead?

ThePrint Team -
Ahead of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 launch later this year, and the planning for Mangalyaan 2 mission underway, there is global talk on going back...
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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

MGNREGA was democratic state-building. VB-GRAMG turns welfare back to mai-baapism

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Opposition must debate utility, provisions of VB-GRAMG. Look beyond the name

Economy

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

Apoorva Mandhani -
While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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