A series of developments in India’s vaunted space sector — built up over the last six decades with grit and ingenuity, amid technology denials — has put the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the country’s premier space agency, under the spotlight. The developments have revolved around unprecedented failures, slowdown of projects with top billing, fears…
Although recent departures represent a small fraction of Isro’s overall workforce of 14,600+, they have come from strategically important centres BENGALURU: The department of space (DoS) has stepped in to curb a recent wave of resignations from Isro’s flagship programmes, tightening rules on voluntary retirement and resignations by scientists working on Gaganyaan and other critical…
Isro chairman V Narayanan (Right) NEW DELHI: Isro chairman V Narayanan has revealed that the space agency is collaborating with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to develop an advanced artificial heating system for future lunar landers that can operate for up to 200 Earth days on the surface of the Moon.The announcement is important…
Ahmedabad: A lunar meteorite recovered from Antarctica more than four decades ago has now been linked to India’s Chandrayaan-3 landing site through a shared geochemical signature, according to a Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) study published in NPJ Space Exploration.In 1981, scientists collecting meteorites in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica identified fragments later catalogued as…
