The faculty was from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and the researchers were from the department of science and National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), a press release from the varsity said on Thursday.
Vikram was scheduled to touch down on September 7. This event was India's first attempt at a soft landing on the Moon.
There's no looking back for ISRO. The Indian space agency has its eyes on the next moon mission despite hard landing of Chandrayaan-2. Things didn't go as planned, but ISRO's plans for a moon mission in future have already begun.
Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission to eradicate plastic use, Nagpur's Uma Diwedi has successfully converted single-use plastics and other such junks into diesel.
Anne Devereaux, working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, is the lead flight system engineer for the US space agency's Mars 2020 mission.
Kounotori8, meaning "white stork" in Japanese, intends to deliver about 5.3 tonnes of supplies to astronauts at the ISS, including fresh food and water as well as batteries and devices needed for experiments.
The sun has set on the Vikram landing site, located near the lunar south pole, and the lander was not designed to survive the frigid, dark lunar night.
Should the Indian space agency rearrange its priorities was the question posed.
Based on a report, a NASA video showcased all known asteroids that passed through our solar system from Jan. 1, 1999, to Jan. 31, 2018 and it showed just how many near-Earth collisions occurred during the last two decades.
More than a dozen companies have asked U.S. regulators for permission to operate constellations of satellites that provide internet service. Not all are aimed at connecting consumers, but some have grand and global ambitions.
The lander of the Chang'e-4 probe and the Yutu-2 rover have resumed work for the 10th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold lunar night.
A Hyderabad based company has come up with fire retardant that promises to protect the material from a fire in industrial as well as domestic scenario. The company, EssKay Laboratory, has developed Firolac, a material that protects the base material from not only fire but intense heat, moist conditions, action of acidic and basic materials and water. The material has to be coated on the surface one wants to protect from fire.
Forty years ago, NASA's Pioneer Venus mission found tantalising hints that Earth's 'twisted sister' planet may once have had a shallow ocean's worth of water.
The Saturday announcement was made at the NASA Headquarters here during the signing of a joint statement by US space agency's Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard and Head of the Australian Space Agency, Megan Clark.
India plans to send three astronauts to space in its own rocket by 2021.
While addressing the eighth convocation of IIT, Bhubaneswar, K Sivan said that the plan to make a soft landing on the lunar surface by Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' module did not go as per script but it will not have any bearing with on ISRO's Gaganyaan mission.
Dr. Thakkar said since it involves a large sum of public money, ISRO and those involved must ask difficult questions of themselves beyond just sentimentalism.
Sivan also said Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is doing well and performing scheduled science experiments.
The lander was designed to work on the surface of the moon during relative daylight. It was designed for a soft landing but had made a hard landing. To top it all, it had an operational life of 14 earth days, which ended Saturday morning.
In what can be termed as the next chapter of human space exploration, NASA is all set to embark on a human mission to the moon, 50 years after its first successful moon mission. Indiatvnews.com brings to you a fascinating story of NASA's plan to stay on the moon till 2024.
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