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NEW DELHI: Isro chairman S Somanath on Monday met chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa at his Chennai residence and said that he “will surely inspire young people including in the space domain”.After meeting Praggnanandhaa and his family at his residence in Chennai on Monday, Somanath said, “We are proud we have a Pragyan (rover) on the Moon, and he is Praggnanandhaa on the ground...what we did for...

NEW DELHI: During the run-up to the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, a delegation of Nasa scientists, on a visit to the Isro headquarters, was "astonished" to see the sophisticated technologies Indian space scientists has developed "at such low cost" to go to the Moon's south pole and wanted India to sell them to the US, Isro chairman S Somanath said on Sunday.Addressing students at an event...

BENGALURU: The crew module — where the astronauts will be contained in a pressurised Earth-like atmospheric condition during Gaganyaan — is under various stages of development.The space agency, which is aiming to conduct the first Test Vehicle abort mission or TV-D1 by the end of this month, will use an unpressurised CM which has completed its integration and testing and is ready to be shipped to...

NEW DELHI: Isro on Saturday evening announced that Aditya L1 spacecraft has “travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from the Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence”.Even as the Isro is keeping a close watch on the movement of Aditya L1 to its destination point ‘L1’, it is simultaneously making preparations in full gear for its Venus mission ‘Shukrayaan’,...

BENGALURU: The Chandrayaan-3 rover Pragyan, whose rear wheels are embossed with the Indian national emblem and the Isro logo on the lunar soil, has been unable to leave a “clear” imprint of the two, which is a good sign as it gives a new understanding of the properties of the lunar soil in the south pole region. New information about the soil in the south pole region, which is a target for multiple...

PUDUCHERRY: The 15th legislative assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry, which convened for the fourth session on Wednesday, concluded within 25 minutes much to the chagrin of the members of the opposition parties – the DMK and the Congress.The House passed resolutions thanking the Union government for granting approval to provide 10% quota for government school students in admission to...

BENGALURU: As Isro burns the midnight oil on Earth, waiting to hear again from Chandrayaan-3 lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan), principal investigators of instruments on the two have begun sifting through data for new findings.Among many things the global scientific community is expected to learn from Vikram and Pragyan’s work before they went to sleep is new knowledge about the lunar soil, which...

BENGALURU: India’s first solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, early Tuesday began its 110-day-long journey to L1, about 1.5-million-km from Earth, with Isro completing the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TLI) flawlessly.The L1 refers to Lagrange Point-1 of the Sun-Earth system. It is a location in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, are in...

Isro has achieved another milestone as live-streaming of Chandrayaan-3 soft-landing on the Moon, which took place on August 23, garnered over eight million viewers, the highest in YouTube history.YouTube chief Neal Mohan has extended his wishes to Isro for achieving the streaming milestone with India’s historic launch on the Moon. Posted on his X’s timeline, Neal Mohan said, “This was so exciting...