NEW DELHI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- India is mulling a joint mission to the moon withJapan, the country's top space official said. "We are looking at a future for a possible joint lunar mission," state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief A.S. KiranKumar told the media ...
Launched July 14, the mission is the first to reach the moon's south polar region, an area of heightened interest because of the possibility of accessible ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters. Ice offers a potential in situ source of air, water and even hydrogen rocket fuel for future...
Additionally, India became the first country to land in the southernmost polar region of the Moon (Chandrayaan-3, ISROa). In 2009, a variety of satellites allowed for fascinating findings. None of them were built to seek water on the Moon, but the Chandrayaan-1 mission of the Indian Space...
Subroto Roy Posted in Chandrayan, India's Moon mission, ISRO, Science, Space explorations. 1 Comment »Neglecting technological progress was the basis of my pessimism about Chandrayaan November 9, 2008 — drsubrotoroy I have been very pessimistic about Chandrayaan-I’s prospects and I am deli...
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TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) – India's space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday.
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It was the second launch attempt for the mission, which, if successful, would make India the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the moon.
The XRISM means X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission and is a collective objective of JAXA and NASA. trending nowThe primary goal of Japan’s moon objective is to show precise lunar landing strategies, which will assist make difficult landing locations more available. Jap...
The moon's surface is seen below the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on August 20, 2023 as it orbited in preparation for landing. ISRO Days before Chandrayaan-3's landing, Russia attempted to land its first spacecraft on the moon in almost 50 years. But the Luna-25 mission smashed into the lu...