Chandrayaan 2

How Russia’s Luna-25 is a reminder of many failed Moon missions

The journey to the Moon is not an easy one. There have been 109 lunar missions launched since 1958, of which 61 have been successful. While only the US and Russia launched Moon missions initially, Japan, the EU, China, India and Israel have been late entrants

Chandrayaan 3’s Vikas engine is ‘Made-in-Mumbai’: Here’s all you need to know

Godrej Aerospace, a firm hidden away in a green area in Mumbai's Vikhroli, has produced the Vikas engine, which is named after the late physicist Vikram Sarabhai. Installed at the top-most part of the missile, the family of liquid-fuelled rocket engines is conceptualised and designed by ISRO

Modi in US: What joining the Artemis Accords means for India’s space dreams

One of the highlights from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to America is joining the Artemis Accords. It is a US-led effort to send humans to the moon by 2025 and expand space exploration to Mars. Here’s how it will benefit India

ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-3 in July: Why this project is special

Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the moon. ISRO has made additional adjustments to the new mission in response to the lessons it learned from the loss of Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 finds abundance of sodium on moon for first time: ISRO

An interesting aspect that widens the interest in this alkali element is its presence in the wispy atmosphere of the moon, a region so thin that the atoms there rarely meet

Some good news: How Chandrayaan-2 brings cheer after ISRO's SSLV failure

On the heels of the heartbreaking news of the SSLV failure came a sliver of hope as ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 delivered a scientific discovery. It has found that there is a plasma density in the moon’s ionosphere, which opens new possibilities in understanding the lunar dark side environment

Chandrayaan 2 orbiter completed over 9,000 orbits around the moon in two years: ISRO chief

Chairman of Apex Science Board, ISRO, A S Kiran Kumar said the imaging and scientific instruments on board the satellite have been providing excellent data.

ISRO invites proposals for analysis, utilisation of data obtained from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter observations

The AO is open to all researchers from recognised academic institutions, universities, colleges, planetaria and government organisations of India,

ISRO's GSLV-F10 fails to place observation satellite into earth’s orbit, Twitterati express support

As per the space agency, the mission could not be accomplished fully due to a performance anomaly in the cryogenic stage of the rocket

Gaganyaan to launch in December 2021, Chandrayaan 3 may launch in 2022 followed by Mangalyaan 2: ISRO chief

ISRO has other major projects lined up including its mission to Venus - Shukrayaan-1 and Aditya which is ISRO's mission to the Sun.