India's second lunar mission will be undertaken with Russian participation though it has got delayed, a top official of an ISRO lab said on Tuesday amidst reports that 'Chandrayaan 2' will be a solo mission. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Sriharikota: India's second moon mission will depend on Russia's decision after a failed inter-planetary mission with China, said India's space agency chief on Sunday, a day when it launched its 100th mission. He also ruled out any race with China to Mars. "Russia is reviewing its inter-planetary missions after a failed joint mission with China. For Chandrayaan-2, Russia has to provide the lander. India will build the lunar orbiter and...
06:34 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Beijing: China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and it will conduct moon landing and lunar explorations, a top space official has said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang'e-3 has "legs" to support the spacecraft in landing, Ye Peijian, chief commander of Chang'e-3 at China Academy of Space Technology, said. The orbiter will carry a lunar rover and other instruments for territory surveys, living...
02:50 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Kochi: The film 'Chandrayaan', based on India's first mission to the moon, will hit the theatres after Onam. The movie, directed by Santhosh George Kulangara, which was screened at Savitha theatre on Saturday, is possibly the first science fiction movie in Kerala. Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan 2, was also present for the screening. George Kulangara said, "There have been science fiction movies such as Appollo at...
03:30 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: NASA has made available a picture that provide the sharpest images yet of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 moon landing sites. The high definition photo even shows the boot tracks left behind in 1972 by the last US astronaut to walk on the Moon. This August 2011 image made available by NASA shows paths left by walking astronauts, single lines, and lunar buggy tracks, parallel lines, from...
06:20 PM, Sep 07, 2011
NASA's Mini-SAR found more than 40 small craters with water ice. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 02, 2010
The first test flight of Ares One will be launched on Tuesday. ...
02:20 PM, Oct 26, 2009
ISRO chief says world can now dream of colonising moon. ...
01:16 AM, Sep 26, 2009
A historic discovery is opening gateways for a possible colonisation of the moon. ...
06:40 PM, Sep 25, 2009
Ocean SAT-2 blasted off from Sriharikota the at 1151 hrs IST. ...
12:59 AM, Sep 24, 2009
European, American scientists will join their Indian counterparts for the review. ...
07:41 AM, Sep 07, 2009
Chandrayaan has confirmed the magma ocean hypothesis. ...
02:18 PM, Sep 02, 2009
ISRO has set up a panel to look into the performance of the mission. ...
02:53 AM, Aug 31, 2009
ISRO chief says radio contact with spacecraft cannot be established. ...
05:57 PM, Aug 30, 2009
ISRO would be able to complete manned moon mission by 2015 AD. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 15, 2009
At $79 million, our moon mission is cheaper than the Chinese and Japanese. ...
07:57 PM, Oct 22, 2008
Ex-chairman of ISRO Dr K Kasturirangan spoke to CNN-IBN about Chandrayaan-1. ...
11:28 PM, Oct 21, 2008
Chandrayaan is scheduled to lift off from Sriharikota, some 370 km north of Thingalur. ...
09:59 PM, Oct 21, 2008
India is going to land its payload on the moon. This is a great moment, he said. ...
09:04 PM, Oct 21, 2008
