SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Chandrayaan-2: ISRO anxious but optimistic ahead of crucial soft-landing

ISRO quiz top scorers to watch Chandrayaan-2 landing with PM

8:22 pm August 26, 2019

New Delhi: The increase awareness about its space programmes, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is conducting an online quiz for school students and the top scorers will get to watch the Chandrayaan-2 landing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the agency’s Bengaluru headquarters. The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has written to the Central […]

Researchers at IIT-Guwahati develop lab grown meat

7:39 pm August 25, 2019

New Delhi: Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed lab grown meat, which is nutritious and will be a step towards cruelty-free food. Lab-grown meat will open new vistas towards cruelty-free food thereby saving the environment as well as the animals, said Dr Biman B Mandal of IIT-Guwahati. In Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering laboratory, researchers have developed […]

Chandrayaan2: Scientists to take up crucial soft landing process on Sept7

9:52 pm August 22, 2019

Chennai: The crucial process of taking up soft landing of the lander ‘Vikram’ onboard the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft that is currently in the lunar orbit will be taken up in the early hours of September 7, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said on Thursday. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation in Bengaluru would be engaged in […]

ISRO releases first Moon image captured by Chandrayaan-2

9:43 pm August 22, 2019

Bengaluru: The first picture of Moon captured by India’s Chandrayaan-2 satellite, currently in the lunar orbit, was released by space agency ISRO on Thursday. The picture of Moon was taken by Chandrayaan-2’s LI4 Camera from an altitude of about 2,650 km from the lunar surface on August 21, the city-headquarters Indian Space Research Organisation said. […]

Chandrayaan2: Scientists to take up crucial soft landing process on Sept7

7:39 pm August 22, 2019