Chandrayaan 3 is said to be her last countdown assignment
On command it (Vikram lander) fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 to 40 cm away, Isro said in an update on 'X'
N. Valarmathi, the voice behind the crucial ISRO space missions, died on Saturday night. The Tamil Nadu-born scientist was reportedly sick for some time and passed away because of cardiac arrest
With this, the spacecraft has completed its lunar-bound maneouvres and it will now prepare for the propulsion module and the lander module separation, Isro said
With solar mission's successful launch, they have a day in the sun
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Aditya-L1 will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth, directed towards the Sun, which is about one per cent of the earth-sun distance
At present, the battery was fully charged and the solar panel oriented to receive the light at the next sunrise expected on September 22, 2023
Chandrayaan-3's rover ramped down from the Vikram lander to the lunar surface on August 25
"Next, I think, will be the first trial flight of Gaganyaan, which might happen in the month of October. That is, next month itself," he added
India also became only the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to successfully conduct a lunar landing mission
The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter lifted off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh at 11.50 am today
He also extended his best wishes for the complete success of the mission
The successful launch of ISRO's maiden solar mission came on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission - Chandrayaan-3
G Kishan Reddy said that today India was thriving and progressing in the field of scientific know-how
He said from the expected final destination of the satellite, Lagrange Point 1 (L1), the satellite could observe the Sun round the clock and extract exact data regarding various solar phenomena
Vijayan in a social media post said that it was another "momentous achievement" for India in space research
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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday launched the country's ambitious solar mission Aditya-L1 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh
The launch of Aditya-L1 by PSLV-C57 launch vehicle was successfully accomplished by ISRO on Saturday