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Reaching for the Moon: Russia's Luna-25 in race with ISRO's Chandrayaan-3

Roscosmos launched Lune-25 on Friday, and Isro launched Chandrayaan-3 on July 14, but what's common between the two missions, and why is it significant?

Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 years

The Luna-25 spacecraft will separate from the booster about an hour after the launch. The flight to the moon will take up to 5.5 days

Luna-25: Russia's bold return to the Moon

After India's successful Chandrayaan-3 launch in July, 2023, Russia's long-awaited Luna-25 is marking a return to moon exploration after half a century. The mission is set for launch on 11th August fr

Isro performs orbit reduction manoeuvre, brings Chandrayaan closer to moon

The space agency said it will carry out the next such operation on August 9

First images of Moon as shared by Chandrayaan-3

India's ambitious third Moon mission's 'Chandrayaan-3' spacecraft was successfully inserted into the lunar orbit on August 5.

Chandrayaan covers 2/3rd of distance to Moon, Lunar Orbit Injection on Sat

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the Moon since its launch on July 14, ISRO said on Friday. Over five moves in the three weeks since, ISRO has been lifting the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into orbits farther and farther away from Earth, and on August 1 in a key manoeuvre -- a slingshot move -- the craft was sent successfully towards the Moon from Earth's orbit. Following the trans-lunar injection, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft escaped from orbiting the Earth and began following a path that would take it to the vicinity of the moon. Tomorrow, in another crucial manoeuvre the spacecraft will be injected into Moon's orbit. The Lunar Orbit Injection (LOI) is set for around 7 pm on August 5, the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said on Friday. The manoeuvre will be performed when Chandrayaan-3 is at the closest point to the Moon (perilune), ISRO said. The space agency said that the health of India's third lunar mission is normal and

Supermoon August 2023: Date, Time, When & How to Watch Sturgeon Moon

August will be an extraordinary month as it brings two full moons i.e. the sturgeon moon and an elusive blue moon toward the start and month's end, respectively

People of Kolkata to witness a 'supermoon' if weather stays clear

People of Kolkata will be able to witness a 'supermoon' on Tuesday if the monsoon sky permits, former director of M P Birla Planetarium Debiprosad Duari said. A supermoon will again be visible by the end of the month on August 30. The full moon, when it is closest to the Earth, is described as a 'supermoon'. The last time two supermoons were seen in the same month was in 2018, and the next such phenomenon will be witnessed in 2037, he said. "It is exciting as this coincides with the time Chandrayaan 3 module will be injected into the lunar transfer trajectory," Duari said. Chandrayaan 3 is scheduled to make a soft landing on the moon on August 23. "The moon goes around the Earth once in 27.3 days in an elliptic orbit. As a result, at some point in its orbit, the moon will be farthest from the Earth, with the distant point being called Apogee, while at some other time it will be closest to the Earth, with this point being called Perigee," he said. "When we have a full moon near .

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft leaves earth's orbit, heads towards moon: Isro

The ISRO on Tuesday said Chandrayaan-3 has completed its orbits around the earth and is now heading towards the Moon. "A successful perigee-firing performed at ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network). ISRO has injected the spacecraft into the translunar orbit," it said. The key manoeuvre was carried out early on Tuesday to slingshot the spacecraft towards the moon. "Chandrayaan-3 completes its orbits around the Earth and heads towards the moon," the national space agency said, adding, "Next stop: the moon." "As it arrives at the moon, the Lunar-Orbit Insertion is planned for August 5, 2023," ISRO said. An ISRO official told PTI that following the trans-lunar injection, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft escaped from orbiting the Earth and is now following a path that would take it to the vicinity of the moon. The ISRO had said it would attempt softlanding on the lunar surface on August 23. The spacecraft's orbit was progressively increased five times after the Chandraya

Union Minister shares big update on Chandrayaan-3 landing, details here

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh shared a major update about the Chandrayaan-3 mission, as the probe successfully completed the fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre on Thursday

Chandrayaan-3 to look for resources to sustain life on Moon: Space minister

The union minister in his interview with TOI said that Chandrayaan-3 will explore the possibilities of human habitat on the moon

62 of 111 lunar missions in last seven decades were successful: NASA data

Of the 111 lunar missions in the last seven decades, 62 were successful, 41 failed and eight achieved partial success, according to the US space agency NASA's database on Moon missions. India on Friday launched its third mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, with an aim to soft land on the surface of Earth's only natural satellite. A successful landing would make India the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the erstwhile USSR. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the technically challenging soft landing on the lunar surface, which Chandrayaan-2 could not achieve, has been planned for 5.47 pm on August 23. Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said the success rate of lunar missions is nearly 50 per cent because of the uncertainties when the rockets leave Earth's gravitational field. "The influence of other planets, from the Sun, is quite a bit. A lot of radiation conditions exist in space and this leaves some equipment or

Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: India has taken lead in space tech, says Jitender Singh

'Fat boy' LVM3-M4 rocket will carry Chandrayaan-3 on Friday as part of the country's ambitious moon mission

Curious connection between various Chandrayaan missions and Tamil Nadu

What is so uniquely common about Chandrayaan series that started off with the maiden lunar mission back in 2008? A Tamil connect. After Tamil Nadu-born Mayilsamy Annadurai and M Vanitha helmed Chandrayaan 1 and 2, Villupuram native P Veeramuthuvel will be overseeing the third mission that would be fired towards the moon onboard the heavy launch vehicle, LVM3-M4 from here on Friday. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), under its chairmanship of the soft-spoken S Somanath, aims to enter an elite league of nations that have mastered the art of soft landing on the lunar surface, with a similar attempt made in 2008 not fetching the desired results. Veeramuthuvel, aged about 46 years, is currently project director of Chandrayaan-3 mission under the leadership of Somanath. Hailing from a small family in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district, Ph.D holder Veeramuthuvel is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He succeeds Vanitha who was the project dire

India to make second Moon landing attempt today as space race heats up

The Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to blast off at 2:35 p.m. local time Friday from India's main spaceport on Sriharikota, an island off the southern state of Andhra Pradesh

Isro conducts 'launch rehearsal' for third moon mission Chandrayaan-3

The Indian Space Research Organisation has undertaken a 24-hour "launch rehearsal" simulating the entire launch preparation and process for this week's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon. The mission is slated to be launched at 2.35 pm onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on July 14. "The 'Launch Rehearsal' simulating the entire launch preparation and process lasting 24 hours has been concluded," the national space agency headquartered here said in a tweet on Tuesday. Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-3 consists of an indigenous propulsion module, lander module, and a rover with an objective of developing and demonstrating new technologies required for inter-planetary missions, according to ISRO.

With Chandrayaan-3, India to be 4th nation to land spacecraft on moon

After such a quantum rise in our Space expertise under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime, 'India can no longer wait to be left behind in its march to the Moon,' Jitendra Singh said

China to send astronauts to Moon by 2030 as space race intensifies

China on Monday announced plans to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030 for lunar scientific exploration, amid its deepening space race with the West. The announcement was made by Lin Xiqiang, Deputy Director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), as China is preparing to send a third set of astronauts to its space station on Tuesday. Li told the media at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Inner Mongolia ahead of the launch of the spacecraft that takes the three astronauts to the space station called Tiangong that China has recently initiated under the lunar landing phase of its manned lunar exploration programme. The overall goal is to achieve China's first manned landing on the moon by 2030 and carry out lunar scientific exploration and related technological experiments, he was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency. China's manned lunar mission came as the US space agency NASA aims to send a second manned mission to the moon by 2025 to explore the south

Lunar dreams, powered by atom

The US' biggest rival in space exploration, China, too, is banking on nuclear energy to power its moon base

Black Moon in May 2023: All you may need to know about its occurrence

According to the calendar month definition, the next Black Moon will occur on December 30, 2024. But as per the seasonal definition of the term, this year's Black Moon will occur today