On March 11, 2024, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) tested the country’s maiden MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle) missile using its Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The test was code-named “Mission Divyastra” and was carried out from Dr. Abdul Kalam Island, in Odisha, while telemetry and radar stations tracked and monitored multiple … Read more
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India’s civil space agency, has had a good run in recent months, with successive successful missions including Chandrayaan 3’s landing on the Lunar South Pole in August 2023. Now the ISRO has reached another milestone with Aditya-L1, its mission to study the sun, having been “successfully inserted into Halo-Orbit … Read more
This image provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) taken by Pragyan rover of Vikram lander on Aug. 30, 2023. Credit: Twitter/ISRO Advertisement India’s moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India’s … Read more
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists watch the descent of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon at ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 Credit: Twitter/ISRO Advertisement India on Wednesday landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of … Read more
Advertisement An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad … Read more