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21 Sep

Chandrayaan-2 mission achieved 98% success: ISRO chief

Bhubaneswar: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Sivan on Saturday said Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved 98 per cent of its objectives, while they are yet to establish any communication with lander 'Vikram'. "We could not have established any communication with the lander yet. The project was developed in two parts - science and technology demonstration. We achieved total success in science objective while in technology demonstration, the success percentage was almost full. That's why the project can be termed as 98 per cent successful," Sivan told media persons. The ISRO chairman is in the city to attend the 8th Convocation…

27 May

NASA’s lunar orbiter camera survives meteoroid hit

Washington: Scientists have determined that the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was hit in 2014 by a tiny meteoroid, a small natural object in space. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced on October 13, 2014 an image that was wild and jittery. From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined that the camera must have been hit by a tiny meteoroid, NASA said in a statement on Friday. "Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the…

04 May

NASA seeks information on commercial cargo service to Moon

Washington: In a possible push to advance space mining, NASA is seeking information on commercial payload delivery services to the lunar surface, media reported. This week, NASA issued a Request for Information (RfI) to the private industry for proposals related to cargo transportation to the lunar surface, as well as a potential mission to collect lunar samples and deliver them back to Earth, Inverse.com reported on Wednesday. The exact purpose of such a request for information (RFI), like most of the agency's RFIs, remains ambiguous, the report said. "NASA has identified a variety of exploration, science, and technology demonstration objectives…