Chennai: It is one year since India’s second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into the lunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday. The Indian space agency said Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft/orbiter was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into lunar orbit on August 20, 2019. Though the soft-landing attempt of the lander Vikram […]
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We located crashed Vikram lander first, says ISRO chief
Jaipur: Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Sivan has said that its own orbiter had located the crashed Vikram lander on the lunar surface. However, “ISRO will not refute the claims made by the NASA,” he said, speaking to media on the sidelines of the sixth convocation of the Central university of Rajasthan in Ajmer on […]
Meet the engineer who spotted Vikram debris
Chennai: His Facebook introduction states, “Nobody knows me”. It may be a philosophical statement. But today the world knows the 33-year old mechanical engineer Shanmuga Subramanian originally from Madurai and now a Technical Architect at Lennox India Technology Centre here. For he was the person who first spotted the debris of India’s moon lander Vikram on […]
ISRO working to demonstrate soft landing on Moon: Chief
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will do everything to demonstrate soft landing of its satellite on Moon, its Chairman K. Sivan said here on Saturday, nearly two months after such an attempt of Chandrayaan-2 failed. Sivan, who had become emotional after the Chandrayaan-2 landing failed on September 7, said that ISRO is […]
Definitely says ISRO chief on Vikram lander’s second landing on moon’s south pole
New Delhi: Determined to get Vikram lander on moon’s south pole, the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) chief, Kailasavadivoo Sivan on Saturday weighed in on the second landing attempt of Vikram lander on Moons south pole, after the first could not find success. Replying to media’s query if that if the ISRO would attempt another landing on […]
‘The speed at which it was travelling didn’t give moon lander a chance’
Chicago: The Vikram moon lander likely crashed at about 184 miles per hour (mph), a speed at which nothing of value could have survived, a highly respected Indian American mechanical engineer, specialising in such critical failures has calculated. Dr. Bharat Thakkar, 77, a veteran of quality control and reliability of systems, who has taught at […]
Chandrayaan-2 mission achieved 98% success: ISRO chief
Bhubaneswar: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Sivan on Saturday said Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved 98 per cent of its objectives, while they are yet to establish any communication with lander ‘Vikram’. “We could not have established any communication with the lander yet. The project was developed in two parts – science and technology demonstration. […]
Experts panel analysing cause of Vikram’s failure
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said its own experts and a national committee of academicians are studying the cause of the failure of moon lander Vikram. In a statement issued after the loss of Vikram on September 7 while landing on the moon, ISRO said a national committee of academicians and ISRO […]
UP’s Rajni won’t come down to earth unless ISRO ‘recovers’ Vikram!
Prayagraj: A video doing the rounds on social media since Tuesday shows a man standing on a pillar of New Yamuna Bridge in Prayagraj. He climbed with the Indian flag and refused to get down unless ISRO manages to ‘recover’ the Vikram lander. The man has been identified as Rajnikant. Although he claims to be a […]
Brad Pitt asks NASA astronaut about Chandrayaan 2
Washington: The fate of India’s Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander found a surprise mention during Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt’s question-answer session with a NASA astronaut. Pitt was at NASA’s Washington headquarters and he called the International Space Station (ISS) to converse with astronaut Nick Hague. The actor asked many questions to get an idea about how […]