Tag: Pragyan Rover

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 […]

Bengaluru: The orbit of Chandrayaan-2’s landing module ‘Vikram’ was successfully lowered for the first time on Tuesday and one final manoeuvre remained for India to pull off a historic soft-landing on the moon in the early hours of Saturday. The 4-second de-orbiting operation was undertaken a day after the indigenously developed lander was separated from […]

Chennai: Reducing the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter to pick up any weak signals or to take a closer look the moon lander Vikram that had crash-landed on the lunar surface is a dangerous move, contend space scientists. According to sources, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking at reducing Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter’s orbit from 100 […]