Chandrayaan 2

The study was carried out by the scientists of Space Applications Centre (SAC)/ISRO, in collaboration with researchers at IIT Kanpur, University of Southern California, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

ISRO chairman withdraws autobiography amid controversy over Chandrayaan 2 remarks

The book by S Somnath, which loosely translates to "lions that drank the moonlight," reportedly had critical remarks about former ISRO Chief K Sivan and the failure of Chandriyaan-2.

Indian Space Station by 2035 – a wild gambit

US, China and Russia went through much longer gestation periods between their first manned flights and space station operationalisation. India is crunching those timelines and there’s no indication of budgets for the programme or how the forbidding costs of maintaining the station will be financed

Chandrayaan 3 touchdown point to be called Shivshakti: PM Modi

The touch down point of Chandrayaan-3 Lander on the lunar surface to be named as ”Shiva-Shakti point”, says PM in Bengaluru.

Chandrayaan-3 moon landing can shift to Aug 27 if conditions unfavourable, says ISRO official

"In case, if any factor appears to be not favourable, then we will land the module on the Moon on August 27," a senior ISRO official said.

'Chandrayaan-3 Will Be A Grand Success...': Ex-ISRO Boss K Sivan On India's Historic Moon Mission

The Chandrayaan-3 mission by ISRO is set to make history with its much-anticipated lunar landing. Former ISRO director K Sivan shares insights into the space agency's innovative approach, drawing from Chandrayaan-2's lessons. Watch the video to know more!

Corrective steps are taken to ensure success of Chandrayaan-3: Former ISRO chief

Sivan says based on the lessons learnt from Chandrayaan 2, the current system is going with more ruggedness

Chandrayaan-3 mission: ISRO successfully performs 5th orbit-raising manoeuvre

"The next firing, the TransLunar Injection (TLI), is planned for August 1, 2023, between 12 midnight and 1 am IST,” added ISRO, which had launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon on July 14.

Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer makes first observations of global distribution of Argon-40 in Exosphere of Moon

'Exosphere’ is the outermost region of the upper atmosphere of a celestial body where the constituent atoms and molecules rarely collide with each other and can escape into space.

ISRO prevents Chandrayaan-2 collision with NASA's Lunar Orbiter

Chandrayaan -2 and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter go around the moon and hence come close to each other over the lunar poles.

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads made discovery-class findings, says ISRO

Earlier this week, ISRO opened up its scientific discussions on Lunar Science to "the people of the country, to engage the Indian academia, institutes, students, and people from all disciplines and walks of life", in the form of a two-day "Lunar Science Workshop & Release of Chandrayaan-2 Data".

Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft completes over 9,000 orbits around moon, says ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is holding a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021, which began on Monday, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

ISRO releases Chandrayaan-2 data as spacecraft completes 2 years in lunar orbit

Chandrayaan-2 data product and science documents were released by Sivan, also Secretary in the Department of Space (DoS), along with data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads, Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO said in a statement.

Chandrayaan-3 launch delayed further to 2022

Unlike its predecessor, Chandrayaan-3 will not have an orbiter. It is the same configuration like Chandrayaan-2 but it will not have an orbiter. The orbiter launched during Chandrayaan-2 will be used for Chandrayaan-3.

Chandrayaan-2's Pragyan rover intact, engineer tells ISRO

Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based engineer, identified the debris of the Vikram lander in 2019.

All 8 payloads doing well as Chandrayaan-2 completes one year in space: ISRO

Chandrayaan-2, aimed at landing a rover on unchartered Lunar South Pole, was launched on July 22, 2019 on board the country's most powerful geosynchronous launch vehicle.

Chandrayaan-3 to be launched in first half of 2021: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

The Indian Space Research Organisation had then resolved to launch the project again. It had said the project is likely to be launched by the end of the year.

SAIL supplies special grade steel for Gaganyaan: Bhilai plant CEO

Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has contributed to the Gaganyaan space mission and has successfully produced plates to be used in the satellite launch vehicle (SLV) that would launch the mission, SAIL's Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL-BSP) CEO Anirban Dasgupta told PTI.

Chandrayaan 2 project director M Vanitha will not work on next moon mission: Report

The organisation had garnered high praise for the appointment of Vanitha and Ritu Karidhal as project director and mission director

We have also failed: NASA’s words of encouragement for ISRO

Tom Soderstrom consoled ISRO and reassured that landing a rover is indeed a rather difficult task.

The Innovators | Dr Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai - Father of India's space programme

Born in an affluent industrialist family in Ahmedabad, Dr Sarabhai's achievements are a reflection of what Indian scientists are today doing at ISRO.

Indian techie Shanmuga Subramanian helps NASA find Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander on Moon

NASA's confirmation came nearly three months after India's Chandrayaan-2 mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south pole in the wee hours of September 7.

Chandrayaan 2: NASA releases image of Vikram lander’s impact site

NASA released an image which showed the impact site and the associated debris field, with parts scattered over almost two dozen locations spanning many kilometres

Chandrayaan 2: Vikram hard-landed within 500 mts of landing site, says govt

Singh, however, said most components of technology demonstration, including the launch, orbital critical maneuvers, lander separation, de-boost and rough braking phase were successfully accomplished.

Chandrayaan-2 successful mission, generated curiosity among youth: PM Modi

Noting that no country in the world would progress without science and technology, Modi said science is not like preparing instant noodles and people should not expect immediate results from scientific researches