Sriharikota to Moon: Tracking Chandrayaan-2's lunar mission
Jun 14, 2019, 02:41 PM ISTKnow what exactly will happen when India's Chandrayaan-2 blasts off and heads to the moon to write a new chapter in India's space program.
Know what exactly will happen when India's Chandrayaan-2 blasts off and heads to the moon to write a new chapter in India's space program.
India is planning to launch its own space station, ISRO chief K Sivan announced Thursday about this ambitious project which will enable the agency to send more humans to space when executed.
French envoy Alexandre Ziegler met Chairperson of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan on Thursday and discussed ways to further space cooperation between the two countries.
India is to launch Aditya-L1, its first mission to study the sun, in 2020, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Sivan said.
India is planning to launch its own space station, ISRO chief K Sivan said Thursday.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday said it signed an agreement with the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday for crew selection and training for the country's prestigious maiden manned mission Gaganyaan by 2021-22.
The RISAT-2B (Radar Imaging Satellite-2B), meant for application in fields such as surveillance, agriculture, forestry and disaster management support, was released into the orbit around 15 minutes after the lift-off. It would replace the RISAT-2, which was successfully launched in 2009.
The countdown for the Wednesday launch of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying the radar imaging earth observation satellite, RISAT-2B began on Tuesday, said an ISRO official.
Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission, is set to be launched in July this year. The lift-off has been scheduled during the launch window of July 9-16, 2019 with an expected moon landing on September 6, 2019.
Like the previous launch events, the ISRO has made provisions for public to view the launch from recently opened Viewer's Gallery at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in Andhra Pradesh.
Looking to explore a uncharted territory, space agency ISRO will attempt to launch a rover of Chandrayaan 2 in the lunar South pole for the first time. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan, till date nobody has made an attempt to land a rover in the region. It has been only near the equator of the Moon.
All modules of India's second moon mission "Chandrayaan-2", scheduled for launch in July, are getting ready and the lander is expected to touch down on the lunar surface in early September, the ISRO said on Wednesday.
Following the launch of RISAT 2BR1, ISRO will send up a cartography satellite Catosat-3.
According to the MoU signed, the two institutes will identify and demarcate the wetlands and restore the degraded ones through suitable livelihood options such as coastal aquaculture.
Talking to media after a special presentation on Mission Shakti, Reddy said that the test will work for deterrence in case of space warfare.
In a letter to ISRO Chairman K Sivan, NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said: "based on the guidance received from the White House", he looks forward to continuing to work with ISRO on a host of issues including human space flights.
The cooperation of NASA with ISRO remains intact, chief of the US space agency James Bridenstine has said, days after he criticised India and termed its anti-satellite weapon test a "terrible thing" for creating about 400 pieces of orbital debris.
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About 17 minutes after the take-off at 9.27 a.m., the rocket would eject the 436 kg EMISAT into a 749 km orbit.
Along with the Emisat, the rocket will carry 28 third-party satellites and also demonstrate its new technologies like three different orbits.
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