Chennai: The 20-hour countdown for the July 15 early morning lift-off of India’s heavy rocket nicknamed ‘Bahubali’ carrying the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is progressing smoothly, Indian space agency officials said. “The countdown began at 6.51 a.m. on Sunday,” K. Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told IANS. Standing at about 44 metre tall, the 640-tonne […]
Bhubaneswar: As the entire world anxiously awaits the launch of Chandrayaan-2, India’s second ever-indigenous lunar mission to the moon, people of Odisha will have a bigger reason to get more excited because of the State’s significant contribution to the ambitious project. According to sources, the wheels or limbs of spacecraft rover ‘Pragyan’, which will help […]
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