https://spacewatch.global/tag/chandrayaan-1/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/chandrayaan-1/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/06/spacewatchgl-opinion-chandrayaan-3-indias-foothold-on-the-moon/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55501 On Friday, 23rd August 2023, moments after confirming the successful soft landing of the Vikram lander with the words “we are on the Moon,” ISRO Chairman Somnath invited Indian Prime Minister Modi to speak. Unlike September 2019, during the unsuccessful Chandrayaan-2 lander mission, Modi was not in Bangalore but in South Africa, attending a BRICS meeting. This mission, a product of national political and financial commitment, attracted international acclaim.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/spacewatchgl-oped-u-s-india-space-cooperation-moving-away-from-the-burden-of-the-past/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 09:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=18048 https://spacewatch.global/2019/06/spacewatchgl-oped-cultivating-european-lunar-leadership-the-time-is-now/ Sun, 02 Jun 2019 08:00:27 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14408 The first half of 2019 has already proven to be a worthy time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon. With China’s Chang'e-4 mission to the far side of the Moon in January and its proactive approach to create a permanent Moon Base, Israel’s private lunar mission in February – which has paved the way for commercial lunar missions, India’s very first mission to the south pole, expected to be launched in September, and NASA’s U.S.$2.6 billion Commercial Lunar Payload Service program and the American ambitions to send humans back to the Moon by 2024, the Moon race is on.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/indian-space-exploration-chandrayaan-2-lunar-mission-launch-expected-in-april-2019/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12352 India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, will be attempted in mid-April 2019, a senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said on 11 January 2019. Chandrayaan-2 will comprise a lander and a lunar rover.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/india-france-talks-venus-mars-exploration/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8352 Following quickly on the heels of their expansive space cooperation agreement signed last month, India and France are moving forward by holding detailed talks about building and sending interplanetary probes to Mars and Venus in the coming years.]]>