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What is helium and why is it used in rockets?
September 14, 2024 12:04 am
Past missions that have been affected by pesky helium leaks include ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 and ESA’s Ariane 5.
Chandrayaan-4 parts to be sent in 2 launches, assembled in space: ISRO chief
June 27, 2024 8:37 am
This would have to be done because Chandrayaan-4 is expected to be beyond the carrying capacity of even the most powerful rocket that ISRO currently has.
Indian satellites suffered no outages during recent high-intensity solar storms, says ISRO
May 15, 2024 11:27 am
Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 captured the sun's wild side during the solar storms on May 10 and 11.
Kolkata grad's team wins University Challenge, UK's 'toughest' quiz show
April 10, 2024 4:15 pm
Sourajit Debnath is an ex-ISRO scientist who also worked on Chandrayaan-2. On the Imperial College quiz team, he tackled maths, physics, science and pop culture questions.
'Breathing, sleeping Chandrayaan': ISRO scientists recall toil behind success
August 25, 2023 8:11 am
One of the scientists talks about breathing in and breathing out the Chandrayaan mission for the past four years.
India and the Moon: 1969's year of turmoil, and one moment that surpassed it
July 15, 2023 10:59 am
In her message on man landing for the first time on Moon, PM Indira Gandhi called it a symbol of "the irresistible spirit of man"... "the spirit which crosses oceans on a bundle of reeds and leaps from one celestial body to another in a small vehicle of its own making”
Chandrayaan-3 mission: Why ISRO wants to explore the Moon’s south pole
August 23, 2023 10:53 am
If everything goes well, Chandrayaan-3 will be the world’s first mission to soft-land near the lunar south pole. All the previous spacecraft have landed a few degrees latitude north or south of the lunar equator.
Chandrayaan-3 to be launched on July 12: Chandrayaan-2 and why it partially failed
July 01, 2023 12:58 pm
Launched on July 22, 2019, the Chandrayaan-2 mission’s Vikram lunar lander crashed on the Moon during the early hours of September 6. Despite the setback, the mission wasn’t a complete failure as its Orbiter part kept on working normally.
Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon for first time
October 08, 2022 10:32 am
Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays.
Chandrayaan-2 orbiter makes new discovery about distribution of gas in moon’s atmosphere
March 08, 2022 4:40 pm
New data from CHACE-2 mass spectrometer on Chandrayaan-2 show distribution of Argon-40 gas in lunar ‘exosphere’, beyond the areas this was known to exist, a statement from the ISRO said
CHANDRAYAAN-2 PHOTOS
ISRO loses touch with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander, PM says 'effort was worth it'
September 08, 2019 7:42 am
Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander failed to make a smooth soft-landing, unable to bring down its speed to the required level.
Chandrayaan-2: All the images clicked by ISRO's second lunar mission in its journey so far
September 06, 2019 6:03 pm
Here are all pictures clicked by ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission in its journey so far.
ISRO's Chandrayaan-2: All photos sent by India's second lunar mission so far
August 23, 2019 5:04 pm
The first image of the Moon taken by Chandrayaan-2 was released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday. Here are all the images taken by India's second lunar mission so far.
Countdown for Chandrayaan-2 begins in Sriharikota
July 14, 2019 1:37 pm
With Chandrayaan-2, India will become only the fourth country to land a spacecraft on moon. So far, all landings, human as well as non-human, have been in areas close to the equator of the moon.
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