Training footage released by ISRO reveals aspects of survival training, parabolic weightlessness, extreme g-force simulation, psychological tests, and more.
ISRO chief S. Somanath details the agency’s planned missions, declines to comment on Chandrayaan-3, whose lander and rover were put to sleep when first lunar night set in.
Somanath told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram that India is capable of 'travelling to the Moon, Mars & Venus' but will need more confidence and investment.
Hours after ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 made a soft-landing on the Moon’s south pole, its rover Pragyan rolled out to do its job — study Moon's surface composition, measure seismic activity.
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer on 8-yr mission to planet's 3 largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto & Europa, which have large underground oceans, making them potentially habitable.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut were due to end the mission in March, but got stuck after the cooling system of their capsule started leaking 2 months ago.
At 8th India International Science Festival, ISRO chairman S. Somanath spoke about space agency’s missions in 2023. This includes a collaboration with NASA.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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