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Chandrayaan-I data confirms presence of ice on Moon

Scientists have found frozen water deposits in the darkest and coldest parts of the Moon’s polar regions using data from the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, that was launched by India 10 years ago, NASA said on Tuesday. With enough ice sitting at the surface — within the top few millimetres — water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially […]

Back to the Moon! ISRO’s All Set for Chandrayaan-2 Mission in 2018

Back to the Moon! ISRO’s All Set for Chandrayaan-2 Mission in 2018 India is preparing to join the league of moon landers with its Chandrayaan-2 mission. Chandrayaan means Moon vehicle in Sanskrit and is India’s second lunar exploration mission after the famous Chandrayaan-1 launched in October 2008. Deemed as the most ambitious moon exploration project by the Government of India till date, the mission has been developed by the Indian […]

Gene Cernan, last astronaut to walk on moon, dies at 82

Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon – an experience that he said made him “belong to the universe,” died on Monday at the age of 82, the US space agency said. Cernan, who was also the second man to walk in space, died surrounded by his family, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement without providing details. A separate statement from his family […]

India working on hypersonic aircraft, harnessing helium from moon

After launching missiles from land and sea, India is in the process of developing suspersonic missile aircraft that would hit long range targets from air. “It needs a lot of testing on the ground. You need to fly it on the ground and do the testing. The integration (of the missile) has been done with the aircraft. But there are many other aspects. We are in the process”, former chief […]