The space race between the two Asian giants ( or should I say world?) China and India has reached new heights with the space agencies of the two countries coming forth with announcement after announcements regarding their future space missions.
After the great success of the Chandrayaan-1 which saw India sending a satellite and a MIP [...]
Chandrayaan-1 has been a huge success and brought many accolades for the Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO). Bolstered by this success, the ISRO has come up with a programme to send a probe to the sun, something that has been in the cans at ISRO for a long time now.
The mission to the sun - Aditya [...]
The temperature inside Chandrayaan-1, India’s first moon mission, has gone beyond the 50 degree centigrade mark, forcing Indian space scientists to think about ways to cool down the craft. Only 9 of the 11 payloads have been activated and the activation of the other two has been put in temporary abeyance due to the increased [...]
India’s Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit. The spacecraft has been launched into the 7,500 km x 500 km elliptical orbit around the moon.
The Lunar Orbit Insertion is a tricky manoeuvre, since the craft has to enter a region where the effects of earth’s and lunar gravity cancel out each other, and [...]
With one of the emerging superpowers China conducting a spacewalk and proving the power of its space technology, the onus is now on the other emerging star India to make a mark in the exclusive Space Club and prove to the world that it really is shining.
Chandrayaan (meaning journey to the moon) is India’s ambitious [...]
