National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator Bill Nelson said the U.S. was open to helping India build its own space station. Nelson met Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh and discussed strengthening cooperation between the two countries in the space sector. The U.S. and India are working on plans to...
India’s Chandraayan-3 Makes a Soft Landing on Moon’s South Pole
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission made space travel history today when it achieved a soft landing near the south pole of Earth’s Moon, just days after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed while trying to land in the same region. India is now the fourth nation to achieve a soft Moon landing and...
India Joins NASA’s Artemis Accords
Based on the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the Artemis Accords are a non-binding set of principles designed to guide civil space exploration and use in the 21st century. It is a NASA-led initiative to return humans to the moon by 2025, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration...
India Hopes to Launch a Venus Orbiter
Having launched three planetary-science spacecraft, India's scientists and engineers at the state-owned Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have set their sights on a Venus orbiter. They have sent plans for it to the Indian national government hoping for approval to go ahead with the mission. "The major objective is to...
India's Moon Mission Technically a Success
After a postponed launch, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft started its journey to the Moon on July 22. Onboard it carried the Vikram lander and the exploratory Pragyan rover, equipped to search the lunar south pole for water and other valuable resources. Things were going well for the lander until just before...
India Launches Space Probe to Lunar South Pole
On July 22, India launched a 3.8 ton satellite destined for the Moon. Lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which means "moon vehicle" in Sanskrit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 2:43 p.m., Monday local time (5:13 am ET). If the...