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40 pc lunar missions in last six decades failed: NASA fact sheet

7:57 pm September 7, 2019

New Delhi: The success rate of lunar missions undertaken in the last six decades is 60 per cent, according to US space agency NASA’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’. Of the 109 lunar missions during the period, 61 were successful and 48 had failed, it stated. In the early hours of Saturday, Indian space agency ISRO’s plan […]

Chandrayaan 2: PM Modi gives tight hug to emotional ISRO chief K Sivan

5:09 pm September 7, 2019

Bengaluru: After a pep talk to scientists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday gave a long and tight hug to an emotional ISRO chief K Sivan, who was in tears, unable to come to termsover lander Vikram’s unsuccessful bid to soft-land on the moon. Modi, in his address at the ISRO centre here, asked the […]

Chandrayaan-3 to be launched in first half of 2021: Government

Film industry hails ISRO team for Chandrayaan-2

2:15 pm September 7, 2019

Mumbai: There is always hurdles in the path to victory and the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which suffered a last minute setback, doesn’t “tantamount to failure”, said members of the film fraternity, after ISRO lost communication with its moon lander early Saturday morning. The communication from the lander, Vikram, to ground station was lost during its powered […]

There will be a new dawn: Modi on Chandrayaan-2

2:10 pm September 7, 2019

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked ISRO scientists not to get disheartened by the hurdles in the moon mission Chandrayaan-2 and asserted that there will be a “new dawn” ISRO’s plan to soft land Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module on the Lunar surface did not go as per script in the early hours of Saturday, […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

Country is proud of ISRO: PM Modi

2:35 am September 7, 2019

Appreciating the hardworks of scientists here at ISRO, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there are ups and downs in life and the country is proud of ISRO for what it has achieved so far. PM was addressing ISRO scientists soon after ISRO lost signals from Vikram lander. It may be mentioned that the scientists […]