chandrayaan programme
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Not Dead Yet: Japan’s Upside-Down Moon Lander Unexpectedly Wakes Up After Lunar Night
The SLIM lunar lander unexpectedly sprung back to life after hibernating during the freezing lunar night, sending a signal back to Earth more than a month after ending up face down on the Moon. On Monday, Japan’s space agency revealed that it reestablished communication with its lander. Yes, breaking this into two sentences can improve…
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India Continues Efforts to Rouse Its Sleeping Lunar Lander
India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover have been asleep on the surface of the Moon while efforts to revive the pair continue until the end of the lunar day. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) tried to reestablish contact with its Chandrayaan-3 mission on September 22 but has received no signal back from the lunar pair.…
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Having Conquered the Moon, India Now Looks to the Sun
India is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Sun, switching its attention to Earth’s host star after finally touching down on the Moon less than a week ago. The Aditya-L1 mission is set for launch on September 2 at 11:50 pm local time (4:20 am September 3) on board a Polar Satellite…
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India’s Moon Mission Makes Unprecedented Measurements at the Lunar South Pole
It’s been less than a week since India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to touch down on the Moon’s south pole, and its lander is wasting no time collecting valuable data from the unexplored region. Using a temperature probe on board the Vikram lander, Chandrayaan-3 measured the temperature profile of the lunar soil in the…