Chennai, August 24, 2023. The Pragyan rover has rolled out from the Vikram lander and will now start moving around on the lunar surface, marking a successful next stage hours after Chandrayaan-3 made its historic landing on the Moon, ISRO sources said Thursday. Its rolling out a few hours after the landing of Vikram marked…
New Delhi, August 24 2023. President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday congratulated ISRO team and fellow citizens for successful deployment of Pragyan-rover from inside Vikram-lander and said it marks the success of yet another stage of Chandrayaan-3. “I look forward with excitement, alongside my fellow citizens and scientists to the information and analyses that Pragyan will…
Bengaluru, August 16 2023. India’s ambitious Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Wednesday successfully underwent a fifth and final lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre, bringing it even closer to the surface of the Moon. With this, the spacecraft has completed all of its Moon-bound manouvres, and it will now prepare for separation of the lander module — comprising the lander…
Bengaluru, August 14, 2023. Chandrayaan-3 ventured closer to the lunar surface on Monday with another successful maneuver of the spacecraft by ISRO, the national space agency said. The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said the spacecraft has now achieved a “near-circular orbit” around the Moon. Post its launch on July 14, Chandrayaan-3, the country’s ambitious third Moon…
New Delhi, August 07, 2023. Chandrayaan-3, aiming to become the first Indian spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon, entered the lunar orbit on Saturday evening, completing another milestone in its journey. This means that the spacecraft which had been moving towards the moon for the last five days — since it emerged…
New Delhi, July 14, 2023. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has underlined the significance of Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission. In a tweet thread, the Prime Minister said : “14th July 2023 will always be etched in golden letters as far as India’s space sector is concerned. Chandrayaan-3, our third lunar mission, will embark…
New Delhi, July 13, 2023. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s second attempt at a soft landing on the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, is set to launch at 2.30 PM IST on Friday, July 14. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is carrying many science payloads that will help scientists here on Earth understand the Moon better. But the main objective…
New Delhi, July 10, 2023. Chandrayaan-3, scheduled to be launched from Sriharikota this week, will make India the fourth country to land its Spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. Stating this here today in an exclusive interview to a news agency, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, MoS PMO, Department…