ISRO will announce Friday if communication with Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram lander & Pragyan rover — currently in sleep mode — has been established & if they'll function again.
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.
Once lunar day lasting 14 Earth days comes to end, both lander & rover to face low temperatures likely to jam systems. Both to be put to 'sleep' so they can continue experiments.
ISRO shares graph showing temperature variations of lunar surface in 1st such profile of lunar south pole that will help scientists understand thermal behaviour of Moon's surface.
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.
BJP office bearer from Karnataka's Bagalkote district submitted his complaint Monday night. Actor says his tweet was reference to old joke about 'Malayali chaiwala on moon'.
NASA has acknowledged it was able to identify the impact site and debris of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander after a tip from Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian.
As India prepares to commemorate its Kargil victory, it’s long past time to assign responsibility for the many failures of leadership responsible for hundreds of soldier deaths in 1999.
With the agriculture sector employing 45% of the workforce but accounting for only 15% of GDP, it confirms that two-thirds of India’s workforce engages in low-productivity work.
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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