India's top space scientist heads world astronautics bodyOctober 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - Indias top space scientist G. Madhavan Nair has been elected president of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) at its general assembly in South Korea, the Indian space agency said Monday.
India's moon mission lauded in Dhaka dailySeptember 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, a Dhaka daily has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research. But The Daily Star newspaper, in an editorial Saturday, cautioned against rivalry among those engaged in research and exploration on the moon.
India's own probe also found water on moon: ISROSeptember 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden lunar craft had discovered water on the moon, a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA's probe that was also aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's top space scientist G. Madhavan Nair said here Friday.
Water on moon: Scientists cry eureka!September 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - India's first lunar mission is perhaps the only space project that has raised many eyebrows. But the sensational finding of water on moon has vindicated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials' faith in the Rs.386-crore mission.
Scientists to review India's moon mission sagaSeptember 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Top European and American space scientists will join their Indian counterparts here Monday to review the performance of India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-1 that was aborted prematurely last week, a senior space agency official said Sunday. "Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will review the performance of their payloads (scientific instruments) that were onboard the spacecraft along with our payloads," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S.
India abandons satellite after losing contact with orbiting satelliteAugust 31st, 2009 India abandons satellite after losing contactNEW DELHI — India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday. Communications with the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, which has been orbiting the moon for nearly a year, snapped Saturday and scientists lost control of the satellite.
India's lunarcraft hunts for ice on moon with NASA orbiterAugust 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - India's first lunarcraft Chandrayaan-1 Friday conducted a joint experiment with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the US's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to trace presence of ice in a dark crater near the North Pole of the moon, the Indian space agency said. "The unique bi-static experiment was carried out jointly when Chandrayaan and Orbiter came closer while orbiting over the lunar North Pole where the permanently shadowed crater is located," the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.
Kazakh satellite on course for 'space burial'August 21st, 2009 ASTANA - Kazakhstan's first satellite KazSat-1 has been put into orbit for a "space burial", the country's mission control reported Friday. The $100 million communications satellite, built for Kazakhstan by Russia's Khrunichev Space Centre, was put into orbit about 36,000 km above the Earth in June 2006.
Pact with US to boost India's space launch industryJuly 28th, 2009 CHENNAI - A technology safeguards agreement (TSA) signed with the US last week will open up fresh opportunities for India in the field of space launches, say officials. The agreement, signed July 20 in New Delhi, will facilitate the launch of non-commercial US satellites and satellites with US components on Indian launch vehicles.
India's mooncraft set right after sensor malfunctionJuly 17th, 2009 BANGALORE - Indian space scientists have corrected the orientation of the countrys first lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 after one of its sensors malfunctioned, a senior official said Friday. We have overcome the snag and the spacecraft is again able to look at the lunar surface while orbiting at about 200 km above the moon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S.
NASA's lunar mission successfully enters Moon orbitJune 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon after a four and a half day journey from the Earth. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m.
Water-hunting satellite to reach moon TuesdayJune 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA will take a giant step toward bringing humans back to the moon Tuesday as a new orbiting satellite arrives there to search for water. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is expected to reach the moon's orbit at 0943 (GMT).
Japan's first lunar probe ends mission, crash-lands on moonJune 11th, 2009 Japan's first lunar probe ends missionTOKYO — Japan's first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon Thursday, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study the Earth's nearest neighbor, Japan's space agency said. The remotely controlled satellite, named after the folklore princess Kaguya, had been orbiting the moon to map its surface and study its mineral distribution and gravity levels.
India's manned space mission will have IAF menMay 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - When Indias first manned mission to space takes off, possibly in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board. Let me promise you one thing, if there is a (Indian) man on moon (read space), it will be from the Indian Air Force, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major told reporters here.
China to send man on moon by 2030May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese astronaut could land on the moon between 2025 and 2030, said Ye Peijian, director of the country's Moon Exploration Project. China's lunar probe ended its 16-month mission with a controlled crash onto the moon in March, officials said.
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