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The Sunday rocketing mission will be the third commercial mission for ISRO in 2023.

According to ISS Programme Manager Joel Montalbano, the outage occurred on Tuesday morning and lasted about 90 minutes.

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) the two hot tests on Gaganyaan SMPS were done at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri on July 26.

While the first half of 2023 saw four rocket launches carrying Indian and foreign satellites, the second half began with the Chandrayaan-3 mission with several others in the pipeline.

From wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, a record hot June, and July likely to be the warmest absolute month on record, millions of people over the globe are experiencing the effects of extreme weather. 

The proposed spaceflight mission is in addition to the NISAR satellite built by the two countries and to be launched by India next year.

In a paper in Cell Patterns, the scientists demonstrated the system by using data on recorded SARS-CoV-2 variants and Covid-19 mortality rates.

Speculation is rife amongst the space sector officials and enthusiasts as to whether the huge metallic object that washed ashore in Australia was part of India’s PSLV rocket that went up long back.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was put into orbit on July 15, 2023 in a copybook style by India’s heavy lift rocket LVM3.

ISRO will be sending up its Aditya L1, a coronagraphy satellite, on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)/rocket to study the solar atmosphere towards the end of August.

If you love the underwater world, you must have come across several clips revealing some amazing visuals from deep under the water. Even, you must be aware that Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench being the absolute deepest point of the ocean has some deep secrets. 

615 crore rupees have been spent on the Chandrayaan-3 mission. Its budget is even lower than 'Adipurush', which is said to be the most expensive film in India. While 700 crore rupees were spent on Adipurush, India's Chandrayaan-3 will land on the surface of the moon at a lower cost. Moreover, Chandrayaan-3 has a lower budget than the Chandrayaan-2 mission. ISRO has a worldwide reputation for accomplishing space missions at low cost.

Chandrayaan-3 has 3 parts, a 1726 kg lander, 26 kg rover and 2148 kg propulsion module. The function of the propulsion module is to change the trajectory of the lander and the rover and take the spacecraft from the earth and place it in a fixed orbit. The lander will then land the spacecraft on the surface of the moon and the rover will come out and explore the lunar surface.

India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to take off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra at 2.30 pm today. Here’s a quick look at the journey of the country’s ambitious lunar expedition and some interesting facts. Chandrayaan mission conceived by Govt of India was announced on Aug 15, 2003 by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

"There are about 54 female engineers/scientists who worked directly in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. They are associate and deputy project directors and project managers of various systems working at different centres