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At the Mission Readiness Review meet on 7 June 2024, S. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, certified the mission for the first half of June at the Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range, subject to weather conditions. In contrast to LEX-02, where the altitude was the same but the lateral distance from the runway was ...
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a lunar rover which was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center.Before the project was cancelled in 2024 the rover would have been tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution and concentration of water ice.
The Chandrayaan programme (/ ˌ tʃ ʌ n d r ə ˈ j ɑː n / CHUN-drə-YAHN) (Sanskrit: Candra 'Moon', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle', pronunciation ⓘ) [4] [5] also known as the Indian Lunar Exploration Programme is an ongoing series of outer space missions by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the exploration of the Moon.
Mission Completed 8 INSAT-2D: 4 June 1997 Ariane-4: Failed in Orbit 9 INSAT-2E: 3 April 1999 Ariane-4: Mission Completed 10 INSAT-3B: 22 March 2020 Ariane-5: Mission Completed 11 GSAT-1: 18 April 2001 GSLV: Mission Completed 12 INSAT-3C: 24 January 2002 Ariane-5: Mission Completed 13 KALPANA-1: 12 September 2002 PSLV: Mission Completed 14 INSAT ...
The Kepler mission, the 10th in NASA's Discovery missions, launched on a Delta II rocket, in 2009. The Kepler telescope was specifically designed to survey a portion of the region of the Milky Way galaxy for about three and a half years to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions ...
An ISRO technician next to a working model of the solid-state television set, designed with NASA assistance, for use in SITE. Image courtesy NASA. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Landsat 4 carried an updated Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS) used on previous Landsat missions, as well as a Thematic Mapper. Landsat 5: 1 March 1984: 5 June 2013 [12] 29 years, 3 months and 4 days: Nearly identical copy of Landsat 4. Longest Earth-observing satellite mission in history.
The requirements called for a small, lightweight spacecraft which was magnetically clean and which could perform an interplanetary mission. It was to use spacecraft modules that had already been proven in the Pioneer 6 through 9 missions. [6] Ames commissioned a documentary film by George Van Valkenburg titled Jupiter Odyssey. It received ...