Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
A week before the launch it looked like the most unlikely place to house the all-important Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission. The ISSDC is intended to be, according to the website of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
From the outside, the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Centre (ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore, looks like any other government office. But it is a different story inside
The spacecraft, integrated with its payloads, was tested for three months for communication between instruments and with the ground. ISRO CHANDRAYAAN-1 underwent a series of tests for several weeks at the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore. It was broiled at temperatures of above 120 degrees Celsius, subjected to freezing conditions …
An important task for four of the 11 instruments on board Chandrayaan-1 is to look for confirmation of the presence of water-ice in the permanently shadowed regions of the south and north poles of the moon, according to Dr. M.Y.S. Prasad, Associate Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The conventional …
Sending a spacecraft on a lunar mission involves navigating it, controlling it and communicating with it as it travels deep into space towards the moon. The moon
Chandrayaan-1 is moving closer to the moon and is expected to enter its lunar orbit on November 15. The earth as seen by Chandrayaan-1 from a height of 70,000 km. This image, the second taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera of the spacecraft on October 29, shows Australia's southern coast. …
It was up and away in a plume of fire almost before the human eye could capture it, with the promise of putting the Indian tricolour on the moon by mid-November. The 1,380 kg Chandrayaan-1, the country
The moon impact probe (MIP) aboard the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 will be dropped on the lunar surface tomorrow marking the beginning of the operational phase of India
The Indian Space Research Organisation's moon mission marks the first venture into "deep space" for an indigenous satellite. India now joins a select club of nations which have achieved this "milestone".
