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A small Maharashtra village boosts India's space ambitions

Pune: At first glance, Walchandnagar in western Maharashtra could pass off as any remote, dusty and depraved village on the country’s rural landscape. But the villages is closely linked to the country’s ambitious space programme. The village’s name is the first give-away. It’s named after the legendary Indian entrepreneur Walchand Hirachand, who laid the foundation […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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Chandrayaan-2 gets closer to the moon

Chennai: The Indian space agency on Sunday evening successfully completed the fifth and final lunar bound orbit change for the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the spacecraft’s maneuver began at 6.21 p.m. using its onboard propulsion system for 52 seconds. The orbit achieved is 119 km x 127 km. All spacecraft […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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ISRO Gets Visitors From NASA, Caltech Post Chandrayan-2

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said officials of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) visited its headquarters and met its Chairman K.Sivan. In a statement ISRO said: “Professor David Tirrell, Provost of California Institute of Technology, USA visited ISRO […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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