Detecting these objects in orbit around Earth’s Moon is difficult Washington/New Delhi: India’s first lunar mission — the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which was generally considered lost — is still ...

Image: Mr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO (centre) and Dr Michael Griffin, Administrator, NASA (right), signing MOU on Chandrayaan-1 at ISRO Satellite Centre. Mr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, and ...

In its fourteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota this morning (October 22, 2008), the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) Polar Satellite Launch ...

Newly published findings from the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter suggest there are at least 600 million metric tons of water ice preserved in the permanent ...

Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI), one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) carried by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, has successfully been turned ON today (November 16, 2008). The instrument ...

Yesterday, the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft performed a powered soft-landing on the Moon, officially making India the fourth country to achieve a controlled ...

Indian scientists have used the observations by the Chandrayaan 1 and Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft to explore water ice on the Moon. The research has implications for future lunar exploration.