#chandrayaan 3 live tracking

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भारत के चंद्रयान लैंडर के 23 अगस्त को चंद्रमा पर सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग की उम्मीद

Chandrayaan News Update। भारत के चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के लैंडर के 23 अगस्त को चंद्रमा पर सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग की उम्मीद है। दूसरी ओर, रूस ने 10 अगस्त को अपना चंद्र मिशन लूना -25 लॉन्च किया, जो 21 अगस्त को चांद के साउथ पोल पर सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग कर सकता है। इस बीच चंद्रयान-3 मिशन को लेकर भारतीय स्पेस रिसर्च ऑर्गनाइजेश के पूर्व प्रमुख के सिवन ने कहा है कि भारत के मंगल मिशन की लागत बेशक कुछ हॉलीवुड फिल्मों की तुलना…

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Chandrayaan 3 Mission चंद्रमा को छूते ही लगे भारत मां की जय के नारे ….

भारत ने चांद की सतह पर अपना कदम रख दिया है। चंद्रयान 3 (Chandrayaan 3) की सफलता पर हर भारतीय का सीना गर्व से चौड़ा हो गया है। पूरा देश जश्न में डूबा हुआ है। चंद्रयान 3 (Chandrayaan 3) के लैंडर विक्रम (Vikram Lander) ने जैसे ही चांद की सतह पर सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग की हर कोई खुशी से झूम उठा, कहीं ढोल नगाड़े बजने लगे तो कई लोग नाचने गाने लगे। हर किसी ने अपनी तरीके से इस सफलता का जश्न मनाया। आइए आपको सुनवाते है चंद्रयान तीन की सफलता पर लोग क्या बोले।

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State of the Planet: 2023 Edition

Here we are once again. Hours to go until the new year is upon us. Even though when you read this you may very well be in the future, it's time once again to use the few hours we have left in 2023 to take a look at the state of the planet. And...what a state it is. I said last year that 2022 may have very well been the inflection point for this decade, the moment that the 2020's truly began to come into their own. I think that's held true for this year, even though it still feels like folks are trying to find their feet in some aspects. But even in all this confusion and uncertainty, there is still progress to be had. So let's take a look back at some of the good things that happened this year:

The European Parliment commited to ending the sale of petrol and diesel fueled vehicles in the EU by 2035 in an effort to push the adoption of electric vehicles.

The High Seas Treaty was signed by the member states of the UN, this treaty commits to the conservation of 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.

The ozone hole continues to shrink, projections have it on track to recover to 1980's levels by 2050.

Finland became the 31st member of NATO.

The World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 and Monkeypox are no longer a global health emergencies.

The first synthetic human embryo was created from the use of stem cells.

The African Union became the 21st permanent member of the G20 (wouldn't it be G21 now?).

Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their contributions towards the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

The FDA approved of a treatment for sickle cell disease involving the use of the gene-editing technique Crispr.

Scientists announced the ability to use AI to decode people's thoughts from brain scans.

King Charles III ascended to the throne in the UK.

Pope Francis decreed that Roman Catholic priests would be allowed to bless same-sex marraiges.

Mexico decriminalized abortion at the federal level.

Despite projections of a recession, the United States economy experienced it's biggest growth since before the pandemic, adding 2.5 million jobs and inflation decreasing to 3.1%.

Spain won the Women's World Cup for the first time in a 1-0 victory over England.

SpaceX's fully stacked Starship flew twice this year, the largest rocket to ever fly (now if only they can get it to stop exploding).

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) was launched by the European Space Agency, it's expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2031.

The European Ariane 5 rocket flew its 117th and final mission.

India's Chandrayaan-3 landed at the Moon's south pole, the first spacecraft to do so.

Oppenheimer and Barbie released the same day in theaters and the internet had a lot of fun with that.

Michigan went 13-0 agian and won their third straight Big Ten championship (BEAT BAMA!)

The Pistons actually won a game before the end of the year.

Remember all that? It's okay if you didn't. But once again, this is where I'm at right now.

You are in the future. Every single word on this post is already confined to the history books. How you remember this year is ultimately up to you, but keep in mind that the reason I make these posts is a counterpoint to the many forces out there who have a lot to gain if everyone is under the impression that everything is always terrible all the time.

And that leads me to my word of the year. It's a bit unusual but I think it fits:

The word of the year is: Perception.

At our core, all of us are truth seekers. Whether it's objective truth or personal truth, we all want to find it. One of the benefits of the internet age that, in my opinion, gets taken for granted is that we now have more information available to us than at any time in human history. Our ancestors had to deal with incomplete and contradictory information, but now we can find out pretty much anything in a matter of seconds.

But with that information comes a host of issues. We unfortunately live in an age where a commitment to objective truth is being overshadowed by a desire for personal truth. We're putting less emphasis on what is true and more on what we want to be true. Unfortunately, as Carl Sagan once said, our preferences do not determine what is true.

And there are those who seek to exploit this. There are people in this world that are willing to alter your own perception on how things are. But not to benefit you, but to benefit them. They wish to take advantage of your desire for your own beliefs to be validated for time evermore and turn that against you, so that they can create a better world for themselves even at your own expense.

But you can stop them. All you have to do is be aware that perception doesn't always equal reality.

2024 will be a consequential year. For one thing, it's an election year in the United States which means the stakes are high enough as is. There will be a lot of consequential events over the next 366 days (yay for leap years!), and a lot of people that you've never met will be trying to tell you how to think and what to believe.

Remember that at the end of the day, the most important values are the ones you hold dear. Just because something gets a lot of engagement on your socials doesn't mean it's the best way to contextualize something. Don't allow your beliefs and values to be compromised for the sake of fitting in with trends or trying to cash in on some vague notion of importance; especially when there's people trying to exploit that at your expense.

The first step to healthy civic engagement is a body politic that is informed and questioning. It will do you no harm to read up on whatever topic is trending on the socials. It will only make you informed and then you will be able to decide if a position or a policy is truly the right one for you, based on what you hold to be important.

Knowledge can be scary at times. It may cause us to reevaluate our position, as well as come to realize that something we felt or believed or even wished to be true now has to be totally re-examined in a new light. But all that is what helps us grow, that's what helps us evolve and become stronger.

They used to tell us that "knowledge is power." I can tell you that knowledge only makes you better.

Remember these words as you head into the new year. Rather than wishing for your perception to be reality, base your perception on reality. And then those who thrive on the exploitation of ignorance will have no power over you.

Have a great New Year's Eve, friends. And I'll see you all in 2024.

Helios.

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India makes history, becomes first nation to land spacecraft near Moon's south pole

AFP, Wednesday 23 Aug 2023 India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, a historic triumph for the world’s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme. Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug.…

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Chandrayaan-3 Latest Update

Chandrayaan-3 Latest Update: Chandrayaan-3 is now only a short distance from the moon. Today ISRO gave a big update and said that Chandrayaan-3 has entered the third orbit of the moon. Chandrayaan-3 will step on the lunar surface on 23 August.

Where will Chandrayaan-3 land on the moon on August 23?

Chandrayaan-3's landing date on the lunar surface is fixed for August 23. ISRO told that the lander will land near the south pole of the moon. If all goes well, Chandrayaan-3 will touch the lunar surface at 5:45 pm. First of all, on August 20, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3 will be de-orbiting at quarter to two in the night.

चंद्रयान-३ की अधिक खबर के लिए आप यूनिक समय की वेबसाइट -

https://uniquesamay.com/chandrayaan-will-reach-closer-to-the-moon-today-will-be-able-to-track-live-like-this/ पर विजिट करे

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Meet The Founder Of Omnipresent, Aakash Sinha; The Man Who Aided India To Reach The Moon!

Regarded as one of the pioneers in robotics and drone technology in India, Omnipresent Robot Tech was established in 2009 with a vision encapsulating the potential of drone technology in the country. In an exclusive interview with Indian Business Times, the Founder and CEO of Omnipresent, Aakash Sinha, takes us through his momentous journey.

He has a technical background with MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in the US. To apply his knowledge and gain some experience with research, he took on the roles of Research Scholar and Robotics Research Scientist at Lockhead Martin, which is a company active in the Aerospace Technology space. Being fascinated by robots, he, then joined another American firm, iRobot Corporation which designs and builds consumer robots.

It was post this experience that he decided to take the plunge and establish his own firm under the moniker, Omnipresent Robot Tech in 2009. The idea was to make robots, which was his area of expertise by then, into flying drones for applications that the world would witness only after a few years. Starting from there, to being the man to develop software for the mighty Chandrayaan - 2, Aakash Sinha and Omnipresent have surely come a long way. During this interview, Sinha elaborates what Omnipresent does, what are the potential areas of applications that are yet to be explored and some valuable tips for all the budding entrepreneurs out there sitting on the fence. So, without any further ado, let us get into this adventurous journey which is bound to get you motivated to follow your dreams as well.

“This kind of technology (Drone Technology) is something that people call disruptive technology. It has the potential to fundamentally change the way life, business and work are conducted.” - Aakash Sinha told Indian Business Times.

Humble Beginnings

The first (of many) landmark achievements that came Omnipresent’s way was the application in one of India’s largest oil refineries. Aakash Sinha demonstrated the use of a drone to monitor the defects and real-time parameters in the refinery which was done manually prior to that. The problems with that were the risk of life (because a person had to climb on the towers without any dedicated safety equipment) and heavy dependence on the data provided by that individual. Now, as one could imagine, the room for human error and inaccurate reading or information is very high in such situations. The drone technology solved these problems by being unbiased messengers which relayed the real-time images and information about the situation of the components and monitor everything. Resultantly, the drones were able to bring forth the issues that even the refinery personnel were unaware of. Realizing the immense value of drone technology, Omnipresent bagged its first project with the oil refinery and never looked back.

“Won’t be surprised to see the consumer drone market flourish where everyone might own a personal drone just the way they carry their mobile phones. It could be their companion on a solo trip to click selfies, record videos and capture the moments on a vacation.”

Current Applications

Arguably the most prestigious project undertaken by Omnipresent was developing the software for creating 3D images from a regular pair of images by Chandrayaan - 2 through its Rover, Pragyaan to map out the surface of the moon. This helps the Rover to navigate its way around the obstacles and generate a 3D model of the terrain of the lunar landscape. By creating this model, it became easier to simulate the Rover and enable movement from earth remotely. The very same rover is being sent with Chandrayaan - 3 with a comprehensive tech support from Omnipresent.  Evidently, it is an ambitious project and reflects the company’s vision to create something affordable and simple but effective.

Apart from this ground-breaking concept, the drones and robots from Omnipresent find usage in surveying, surveillance and inspection in large industrial establishments. The biggest industrial giants in India including Reliance, Adani and Aditya Birla Group reap the benefits of these services. Furthermore, Omnipresent has already secured projects from 6 State Governments in the areas of mapping, surveying and other sectors after having realised the potential of drone technology. The amount of cost and time saving through the use of drones is simply unparalleled and almost unthinkable just a decade ago. The other prominent services of Omnipresent entail cleansing of water bodies, enabling remote services during the Covid times, IOT (Internet of Things) based video analytics for vivid and sharp videos and images from the sites where drones are used, precision agriculture for spraying the right amounts of insecticides, pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation using drones and robots, detecting a failure in a crop to ensure quick corrective response.

“I see drones as flying robots. They can move by themselves and sense their surroundings. According to the situation, they can react as well. There was a tremendous need in India for something like that back when I started Omnipresent in 2009 and not a lot of people were doing it.”

Future Potential

The future prospects of drone technology are undeniably massive. As a matter of fact, we are at that stage of evolution of this technology that we can’t fathom the full-scale utilization of this technology. If you think we are exaggerating, consider the example of something we have all lived through, the Internet. Back in 1983, when the Internet is believed to be invented, could anyone have ever thought that it could allow us to watch someone a thousand miles away or get you anything you wish right at your doorstep? Even after almost 4 decades of the Internet, we are finding new applications. The drone technology is merely a decade old and the future is beyond comprehension.

However, we could see where it is headed and what the plans are for the next few years. In a few years’ time, drones will be used extensively for food and parcel deliveries, e-commerce and fast commerce, drone taxis which can cover hundreds of kilometres, mapping which would be used to measure every centimetre of ground in India and have the digital information available in any part of the country, complete overhaul in the drone-based agriculture which employs over half of country’s population, industrial assessments like communication towers, power lines, factory chimneys, cooling towers, surveying and constructing roads and highways as announced by the NHAI (Nation Highway Authority of India), Railway track maintenance, defence arsenal, passenger carriers for inter-city commute and much more.

The idea is to bring transparency for everyone involved so that the overall efficiency could be enhanced significantly. For the tech savvy, Omnipresent envisions that the most relevant future drone technology would be something known as the “Drone Nerve Center”. This could enable virtually any number of drones to be connected to a central headquarters to send and receive data and initiate the desired actions. Again, this software has been used in Pragyaan, the rover of Chandrayaan - 2, for perception and navigation. “All these are areas which we already know about and the trials have also begun in a few of these” – Aakash Sinha is confident that there will be at least 2 or 3 unicorns from this field in the immediate future and Omnipresent will be one of them. To put it simply, the possibilities are infinite.

“Not a lot of people know this, but Agriculture is a sector which will be highly driven by drones in a few years’ time. Over 50% of the Indian population finds employment in agriculture. Drones will be able to release adequate amounts of pesticides and diagnose problems in the crops timely, thereby cutting down input cost and boosting agriculture yield upto 20%.”

Commercial Drone Technology Requirements

Beginning to be used much more extensively, the Government realizes the potential and relevance of promoting drone technology in India. Consequently, the Govt. has announced a few relaxations to this formerly tightly restricted and regulated space. This has proven to be a boon to the companies in this space. The DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has over 300 designated “green zones” where even the large drone (max weight 500 kg) would not require any permission to fly unto 400ft. In these areas, even long-range drone flights, night operations, variable payloads, deliveries and spraying are permitted. The “yellow zones” would require an automated permission to fly unto 200ft keeping 12 km away from the installations and airports. Furthermore, the drone weighing less than 250 g will not even require NPNT (No Permission No Takeoff) from the DGCA or the Government. Drone heavier than 2 kg would require a government-trained pilot but going forward, the Govt. might grant exemptions from these regulations on a case-by-case basis.  Aakash Sinha has applied himself tirelessly to receive all the certificates and licenses to fly the drones legally in India.

“We must laud the Government for the visionary policy relaxations to allow drone industry to grow exponentially. From being a heavily regulated space, the drone industry has become almost self-regulatory. This decision will attract myriad new investors to this sector”.

Valuable Lessons for Upcoming Entrepreneurs

It is not every day that one gets the guidance of someone for free, who has achieved so much in his field of expertise. We recommend you make the most of it by trying to apply these words of wisdom by the man himself. During the interview, when asked about how an entrepreneur should go about building his business, handle the company/products and tackle the investors, Aakash Sinha had the following gems to share.

•   An entrepreneur should not be passionate about the product blindly, but must have some actual data to ensure that the idea he is investing his time and resources in, has a chance to become successful.

•   An entrepreneur must relentlessly focus on improving his/her product or services every single day.

•   One must always look for the right investor and not anybody who is willing to throw his/her money around.

•   Ideally, the vision of the company must align well with the investors to achieve maximum potency.

•   Chase the big dreams but don’t think that you will always succeed, also be prepared for failures. Constant learning from failures are the stepping stones to big success.

“The future of drone technology lies in the software. With new requirements, you will relentlessly need to keep updating the software for drones. If you are someone who is interested in software programming, the drone industry is bound to be the future-proof space, especially in India” – Concludes Aakash Sinha.

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Silicon Valley's tech heavyweights need to settle the moon

chandrayaan 2The moon is extremely popular nowadays. China needs to send individuals there. So too does the United States and NASA. Actually, pretty much every nation with a space program has a type of lunar aspiration that it expectations will happen throughout the following couple of years.

Presently, there's another participant in this contemporary space race, a not-for-profit association called the Open Lunar Foundation. Situated in San Francisco, it's a gathering made up of tech officials and architects — a considerable lot of them with previous connections to NASA — who have genuine desire to make a lunar settlement. Steel Girder

The driving objective behind the establishment is to begin an improvement that would not be under obligation to a specific nation or very rich person. Rather, as the gathering's name recommends, Open Lunar needs to make innovation for investigating and living on the moon as a kind of shared exertion.

"Our most noteworthy desire is catalyzing and empowering a quiet and helpful lunar settlement," said Chelsea Robinson, the head of tasks and staff for Open Lunar. "Right now when there are such a significant number of business and government entertainers propelling their endeavors on the moon, we are eager to show a city way to deal with cooperation."  Steel Structure

Open Lunar started a couple of years prior as something of an idea work out. A gathering of companions in Silicon Valley were checking out the emotional enhancements in aviation innovation alongside the falling expense of rocket dispatches, because of organizations like Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. furthermore, Peter Beck's Rocket Lab. The companions went to the acknowledgment that it may before long be conceivable to make a little lunar settlement for about $2 billion to $3 billion.

It's a heavy entirety, yet a truly reachable one of every a time that flourishes with rich space aficionados. Thus, the companions chose to investigate heading off to the moon decisively. factory sheds

"The image that rose out of those gatherings was that you could make a lasting, financially self-continuing nearness on the moon that should be possible for the single-digit billions," said Steve Jurvetson, an investor who gave the underlying Open Lunar subsidizing. "I got energized by that thought and the convincing idea of the individuals included."

Probably the most noticeable individuals from the gathering incorporate space traveler Chris Hadfield, who has invested energy in the International Space Station; Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler, prime supporters of satellite creator Planet Labs Inc.; Simon "Pete" Worden, the previous executive of NASA's Ames Research Center; and Jurvetson, who has put resources into both SpaceX and Planet Labs. INDUSTRIAL SHEDS

Hadfield is recorded as an executive of Open Lunar in philanthropic filings, while the others are counselors to the establishment. These people, alongside many other individuals, have gone through the most recent year and a half gathering in private to make sense of what kind of early missions would bode well. Working thoughts incorporate littler, less expensive missions to put different tests and automated frameworks on the lunar surface as opposed to one gigantic mission.

It was Robinson, a long-lasting not-for-profit coordinator, and Jessy Kate Schingler, a product engineer who most as of late worked at a rocket startup, who transformed the conceptualizing into a formal association. Schingler assumed the job of chief of arrangement and administration. Presently, the establishment's little group has been procuring full-time equipment and programming engineers for Open Lunar and placing the remainder of the official structure set up.

"Lunar action is detonating," Jessy Kate Schingler said. "There are governments and organizations seriously centered around going, yet there is no third column speaking to the plausibility of doing things any other way. On the off chance that we don't move up our sleeves and get included, at that point by definition the fate of human settlement in space will mirror the norm of those right now in power. To see things done any other way on the moon, we needed to begin testing now."

The definite designs for the establishment are a work in advancement. Up until now, the not-for-profit has a stash of about $5 million, however the objective is to raise more assets to pay for equipment that could go to the moon and to deal with strategy programs, Robinson said. Sometime later, Open Lunar will hope to raise (much) more cash to help its objective of building up a community oriented interplanetary repayment.

The establishment will get from the playbook of open-source innovation as it attempts to quicken the investigation and settlement of the moon. Open Lunar's individuals have been talking about approaches to have individuals from numerous nations met up to take a shot at undertakings. What's more, they have plans to share information and equipment structures from their missions, reflecting the advancement of open-source programming like Linux or Android.

On the most optimistic level, Open Lunar needs to attempt to set points of reference that would empower a more amicable settlement of the moon as opposed to transforming it into a ruinous free-for-all among country states.

"We need to take the best of what humankind brings to the table and put our best foot forward," Robinson stated, "and make our first independent stride off Earth."

Generation of a virtual video of XCOR Aerospace's Lynx who was uncovered in Beverly Hills, Californ

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In spite of the fact that this may all stable outlandish, there's motivation to think Open Lunar may really have the option to draw off something like an open-source moon living space. Hadfield brings a lot of room living mastery. Marshall is a world-class researcher who went through years working at NASA Ames on ventures extending from ease lunar landers to the Lcross (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission that affirmed the nearness of water on the moon. At Planet Labs, he and Robbie Schingler helped fabricate the biggest satellite heavenly body in history with many shoebox-sized gadgets that circle the Earth and snap photographs of its surface.

While generally serving in warning jobs, they've figured out how to enlist engineers with rocket, apply autonomy and programming ability to the Open Lunar gathering and are connected to a system that incorporates some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest individuals. In the mean time, Jessy Kate Schingler has gone through years taking a shot at space strategy and has examined test types of administration.

Given Silicon Valley's conduct in the course of the most recent couple of years, a few people will no uncertainty see an undertaking like Open Lunar with an incredulous eye. It's pleasant to imagine that a gathering of benevolent private natives may make a superior showing of settling another world than governments, administrators and military strategists. The truth, however, has been that Silicon Valley's optimism frequently gets invaded by eagerness and aspiration.

In any case, a significant number of the individuals behind Open Lunar have assembled notorieties as the absolute most intentional scholars around space investigation. Some have long track records sorting out youth space gatherings, prompting the United Nations on space approach and crusading against the weaponization of room. If anybody somehow managed to make an open-source lunar program, it may be the group behind this task.

"I need to gaze toward the full moon and have it mirror back to me not simply light like it has for centuries," Robinson stated, "however reflect a dream for how we need our future to work here on Earth.

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Chandrayaan 3 Mission चांद पर लहराया तिरंगा, मेहनत लाई रंग

भारत ने विश्व में इतिहास रच दिया है. बुधवार की शाम को Chandrayaan-3 ने चांद की सतह पर सफल लैंडिंग कर ली है. भारत का नाम अब दुनिया के उन चार देशों में जुड़ गया है, जो सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग में एक्सपर्�� हैं. इस सफलता को हासिल करने वाला भारत दुनिया का चौथा देश बन चुका है. पिछली बार चंद्रयान-2 की क्रैश लैंडिंग हुई थी. तब भारत को बहुत मायूसी हाथ लगी थी, लेकिन इस बार तगड़ी तैयारी की गई थी और नतीजा सफलता के रूप में हासिल हुआ है. ISRO ने चांद पर परचम लहरा दिया है. Chandrayaan-3 ने चांद की सतह पर अपने कदम रख दिए हैं.

India has created history in the world. Chandrayaan-3 has made a successful landing on the lunar surface on Wednesday evening. India's name has now been added to those four countries of the world, which are experts in soft landing. India has become the fourth country in the world to achieve this success. Last time Chandrayaan-2 had a crash landing. Then India was very disappointed, but this time strong preparation was done and the result has been achieved in the form of success. ISRO has hoisted the flag on the moon. Chandrayaan-3 has put its steps on the surface of the moon.

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Launch referred to as off resulting from technical snag, revised dates at the very least 10 days away, says ISRO

http://tinyurl.com/yyrxzfsx LIVE Updates from ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 mission: India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon, named Chandrayaan 2, has been placed on maintain citing technical points, and a revised countdown is to be introduced shortly. A technical snag was noticed within the launch automobile at T-56th minute. As a measure of plentiful precaution, the Chandrayaan 2 launch has been referred to as off for immediately, mentioned ISRO in a tweet. A revised launch date will probably be introduced later, they added. An illustration of Chandrayaan 2 orbiter lander rover composite orbiting the Moon. Picture courtesy: ISRO In a primary for India, ISRO will deposit a lander and rover on the floor of the Moon on 6 September 2019. The orbiter-lander-rover composite is anticipated to make a soft-landing on a beforehand unexplored area simply 650 kilometres from the lunar South Pole. This would be the first time any mission touched down so distant from the equator. One of many major aims is to reveal the power to soft-land on the lunar floor. Among the many mission’s different scientific aims are experiments to map the Moon’s floor, its mineral and factor content material, moonquakes and signatures of water-ice on the lunar floor. The mission will probably be streamed dwell on DD National‘s YouTube channel and tech2’s Youtube, Facebook and Twitter handles, made out there 30 minutes earlier than the launch window opens, at roughly 2.21 am IST on 15 July. Listed here are a choose group of tales on the mission we would suggest studying: Chandrayaan 2: Here are answers to all your questions on India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan 2 to hunt for trillion-dollar-worth Helium-3 on Moon’s surface GSLV-MkIII, the launch platform that will make Chandrayaan-2 and Gaganyaan a reality Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter: Everything you need to know about its objectives, science and design Vikram Lander: All you will need to know about the vessel carrying Chandrayaan 2 Pragyan Rover to the Moon How does ISRO’s GSLV Mk-III fare against some of the world’s most powerful rockets? Chandrayaan 2 demonstrates India’s potential, but engineering education standards need improvement to sustain innovation India plans to have a space station of its own by 2030: Here’s what we can expect A brief history of every moonshot in the history of space exploration Your information to the newest cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, experiences, opinions, dwell updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. Comply with us on Twitter and Instagram or like our Facebook web page for updates all through the continued occasion in England and Wales. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)} ; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '259288058299626'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=1117108234997285"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); window.fbAsyncInit = function () { FB.init({appId: '1117108234997285', version: 2.4, xfbml: true}); // *** here is my code *** if (typeof facebookInit == 'function') { facebookInit(); } }; (function () { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); function facebookInit() { console.log('Found FB: Loading comments.'); FB.XFBML.parse(); } Source link

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Toyota Designs the Ultimate Off-Roader … for a Mission on the Moon – Technologue

Have you been paying attention to the international moon race going on right now? I’d somehow missed the fact that countries ranging from India and Israel to China and Japan all have moon missions underway or imminent.

Yep, Google Israel’s privately funded Beresheet mission, India’s Chandrayaan-2 (complete with lunar rover), and China’s Chang’e-4. That one’s Yutu-2 rover is currently prospecting on the back side of the moon in search of a helium-3 isotope that could potentially power fusion reactors and/or rockets required to reach Mars and beyond.

The mission that caught my attention was Japan’s, because the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA, that nation’s NASA) has enlisted Toyota’s help to build a manned rover big enough to make roadkill of those Indian and Chinese Moon-bas (note: this is not its stated mission).

Unlike the dune buggies GM helped engineer for NASA’s Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions in 1971–72, Toyota’s rover will be a maxivan pressurized to allow two astronauts to work without space suits in between outdoor excursions. The six-wheel-drive EV utilizes in-wheel electric motors powered by a flexible roll-up photovoltaic solar array, a battery, and a fuel cell. That last item is both a Toyota strong suit and a lynchpin of the new rover’s mission. The farthest any NASA rover traveled on its silver-zinc potassium hydroxide battery was 22.3 miles, never venturing more than 3.1 miles (walking distance) from the lander. Toyota’s rover will spend six years traveling 6,200 miles in total (that’s roughly the equatorial circumference of the moon) supporting four manned missions.

Powering the fuel cell will be two replaceable cartridge-tanks carrying 20 kg of hydrogen and 160 kg of oxygen—enough to power roughly 620 miles of presumably round-trip travel to and from a landing craft. I’d expect scheduling and routing to maximize time spent in the moon’s 14-Earth-day sunshine, when solar power contributes mightily to the rover’s life-support and propulsion needs. Toyota hasn’t disclosed power, acceleration, or top speed figures yet, but the record to beat is Eugene Cernan’s: 11.2 mph.

The rover will reposition itself autonomously to meet successive missions (which will bring fresh fuel tanks), probably traveling by “day” and resting in the darkness. Water produced by the fuel cells will be used for drinking—at least initially, there is no plan to electrolyze it and repressurize the oxygen and hydrogen gas, but maybe with a Chinese fusion reactor …

While NASA’s buggies each weighed a scant 463 pounds (on Earth—one-sixth that on the moon) and folded in half to hang in a small cargo hold, Toyota’s will weigh just under 14,000 (Earth-gravity) pounds with a GVWR of 10 tons. Sized to fit in the cargo bay of a modern transport rocket, the concept measures just under 20 feet long on a 15-foot wheelbase, 17 feet wide (measured at the wheels), and over 12 feet tall with about 20 inches of ground clearance. Roughly one-seventh of that exterior envelope is living space—470 cubic feet.

Construction will be “body on frame,” for optimum isolation/protection of the passenger cell and to protect for future reuse/repurposing of the skateboard chassis in support of a lunar outpost. Aluminum and titanium will be used extensively; carbon fiber may be employed if it proves sufficiently resistant to radiation.

Six wheels were chosen over tracks for reliability and serviceability, and the 600/65R28 airless metal “tires” (being designed with Bridgestone’s input) are sized to safely distribute the porky vehicle’s load on the lunar gravel. All propulsion and suspension components are designed to operate “by wire” and wherever possible, free of rubber and fluids that would be difficult to seal and manage in the near absolute vacuum and drastic temperature extremes of the lunar environment.

Toyota and JAXA kicked this project off in May 2018 with a goal of getting a full-scale prototype running in 2022. The target launch date is 2029 with manned missions arriving yearly between 2030 and 2034. It better have good cameras—by then, there could be as many as 10 little unmanned rovers from other countries running around underfoot.

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Here’s A List Of Every Upcoming Space Mission For The Next Twenty Years – And Some Of Them Are Unbelievably Awesome

It seems like almost every week there’s a new exciting space mission announced, from fanciful journeys to Mars to serious scientific expeditions.

But how can you keep track of it all? Why, if only someone had compiled every interesting space mission of the next 20 years into a handy timeline. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Well, wish no more, because that is just what we’ve done. Below, you’ll find a list of every rocket launch, spacecraft rendezvous, manned mission, and more you should have on your radar.

Feel like we’ve missed something? Post your suggestion in the comments and, if it’s worthy, we’ll add it to the list.

Note that all dates are subject to change.

2017

March The Planetary Society’s Lightsail 2 their second demonstrator of solar sail technology is expected to launch into orbit.

May SpaceX will perform an unmanned test of its Crew Dragon vehicle in orbit. A manned flight is scheduled to follow by the end of the year.

September 15 NASAs Cassini mission around Saturn will come to an end.

Autumn Private company Asgardia, which wants to create the first space-based nation, will launch its first unmanned satellite.

Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn since July 1, 2004. NASA/JPL-Caltech

December Russia’s long-awaited Nauka module, also called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at some point next year. The latest reports say it has been delayed to December.

December By the end of next year, Blue Origin is expected to begin manned launchesto space, ahead of paid space tourism flights.

December A new NASA planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), should launch by the end of the year.

December 19 A new European planet-hunting telescope, the Characterising Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS), will be ready to launch.

TBD XCORs Lynx spaceplane is set to begin test flights. The plane will seat two people on short hops into space.

TBD Private Arizona-based company World View Enterprises aims to start sending paying customers on high-altitude balloon rides, spending two hours at an altitude of 30,500 meters (100,000 feet) for $75,000.

TBD China will attempt to return samples from the Moon with its Change 5 mission. This will be the first lunar sample return mission since 1976.

TBD Two competitors in Google’s Lunar XPRIZE, Moon Express and SpaceIL, are expected to launch to the Moon and attempt to land unmanned probes, the first ever private lunar landings.

TBD SpaceX’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Falcon Heavy, should launch for the first time.

The Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in operation. SpaceX

2018

January Proposed launch date for Inspiration Mars, a private mission to send two people on a flyby of Mars. Its highly unlikely the mission will ever happen, however.

February NASAs Juno mission, which is currently studying Jupiter, is scheduled to end. A recent issue with the spacecraft, however, has meant the mission may be extended beyond 2019.

April The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch BepiColombo, Europes first mission to Mercury.

May 5 NASA will launch its delayed InSight lander to Mars. Touchdown is expected on November 26. The unmanned probe will study the interior of the Red Planet.

May SpaceX plans to launch its first unmanned mission to Mars, which will also be the first private Mars mission.

July 31 NASAs Solar Probe Plus mission will launch, the first mission to fly into the Suns upper atmosphere, approaching within just 8.5 solar radii of the surface.

July Japans Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will arrive at its target, the asteroid Ryugu. It launched on December 3, 2014, on its way to the asteroid, and will attempt to return a sample to Earth in December 2020.

August NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid Bennu, returning to Earth in September 2023 with a sample of between 60 grams and 2 kilograms (0.1 and 4.4 pounds) the largest sample returned to Earth since the Apollo missions.

OSIRIS-REx will fire bursts of nitrogen to loosen material from the asteroid. NASA

October NASAs huge new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is scheduled to launch for the first time. It will send the Orion spacecraft on a three-week mission around the Moon, although rumors abound that one or both of the SLS or Orion may be scrapped.

October NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the high-profile successor to the Hubble space telescope that has experienced numerous cost overruns and delays, will finally launch.

December India will launch its next mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, which will include an orbiter, lander, and rover.

TBD Japan will launch a new Moon mission called SELENE-2, a successor to 2007s SELENE mission. Like Indias mission, it will consist of an orbiter, lander, and rover.

TBD China will aim to become the first nation to land a probe on the far side of the Moon with its Change 4 lunar lander.

2019

January 1 New Horizons will perform a flyby of an object in the outer Solar System, a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.

October The Sierra Nevada Corporations unmanned Dream Chaser vehicle, a space plane about a quarter the size of the Space Shuttle, will launch for the first time atop an Atlas V rocket.

Late 2019 Japans unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is expected to launch. It will be able to perform a precise landing by analyzing the ground during its approach.

TBD 2019 may be the year that Virgin Galactic finally starts sending paying customers into space.

TBD Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries may launch its first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid called Prospector 1.

Deep Space Industries wants to one day mine asteroids. Note, this is a future concept, not Prospector 1. DSI

2020

July NASAs next Mars rover, tentatively named the Mars 2020 rover, will launch to the Red Planet. It will aim to search for signs of past life on Mars. This, and the other Mars missions below, will arrive in early 2021.

July ESAs Exomars rover will launch to Mars, searching for signs of past or present life.

July The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will attempt to launch its first mission to Mars, an orbiter called Hope.

July India will launch its second mission to Mars, an orbiter called Mangalyaan 2. It may also include a lander and rover.

July SpaceX may launch its next unmanned mission to Mars.

July/August China plans to launch an orbiter, lander, and rover to Mars, its first mission to the Red Planet.

October The Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), a joint NASA-ESA mission to see how slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid changes its trajectory, will launch.

TBD Change 6, another Chinese mission to the Moon, will launch. Its not clear what this mission will do.

TBD The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the worlds largest radio telescope array with a collecting area of one square kilometer (0.39 square miles), will switch on for the first time.

TBD Bigelow Aerospace hopes to start construction of the first space hotel with its B330 module.

TBD ESAs Euclid mission will launch. It will be tasked with studying the acceleration of the universe by measuring the redshift of distant galaxies, giving us a greater understanding of dark energy and dark matter.

AIM will attempt to alter the trajectory of an asteroid, with a view to one day use this technique to save Earth. NASA/ESA

2021

October NASA will launch a spacecraft called Lucy to study Trojan asteroids in the asteroid belt and beyoned from August 2027 to March 2033.

TBD Earliest date for NASAs Orion spacecraft to launch with a crew for the first time on a mission to lunar orbit and back. The target is between 2021 and 2023 for this mission.

TBD India plans to launch its first manned mission.

2022

TBD ESA will launch its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), a spacecraft to study the Jovian moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. It would enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030 and Ganymede in 2033.

TBD China will launch the first part of a new large space station, about one-seventh the size of the ISS. This first module will be called Tiangong-3.

TBD The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), an extremely large telescope that will be built in either Hawaii or the Canary Islands, will become operational.

TBD At some point in the mid-2020s, possibly 2022, NASA will launch its Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission. This spacecraft will perform repeated flybys of Jupiters moon Europa to study its subsurface ocean and ascertain its habitability, and may also include a lander.

TBD Japan may launch a mission to return a sample from the Martian moon Phobos.

2023

October NASA will launch the Psyche mission, to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name in 2030.

2024

TBD SpaceX plans to launch the first manned Mars mission, part of its bold Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) project.

TBD ESA may launch a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos, called Phootprint.

TBD The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the worlds largest optical telescope, will become operational.

TBD The International Space Station (ISS) will be closed and later de-orbited. This date may be extended to 2028 or even later, though.

TBD ESAs Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) satellite is expected to launch, which will search for planetary systems beyond our own, with an emphasis on Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants a million people to live on Mars by the end of the century. SpaceX

2025

TBD At some point in the mid-2020s, NASA may launch a mission to return a sample of material from the surface of Mars.

TBD NASA will launch its Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope(WFIRST)in the mid-2020s, which will study dark energy and search for planetary systems like our own.

2026

TBD Proposed year for the launch of NASAs Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which will see a crew in an Orion capsule visit a captured asteroid in lunar orbit. This may be combined with the previous Orion mission or scrapped entirely, though.

TBD Proposed launch date for the first crewed Mars One mission. Since its announcement in 2012, though, the chances of this ever happening have pretty much diminished.

2028

TBD ESA will launch its Athena mission, a space telescope that will map the hot gas in the universe, and study supermassive black holes.

Early 2030s

TBD NASA may launch humans into orbit around Mars, possibly landing on the Martian moon Phobos and operating rovers on the surface of Mars. They are aiming for manned missions to the surface of Mars by the end of the 2030s.

TBD Around this time, China and Russia have tentative proposals to land people on the Moon.

2031

TBD Proposed launch for Russias Mercury-P spacecraft, which will perform the first ever landing on Mercury.

TBD Russia wants to perform its first manned lunar landing.

2036

TBD Breakthrough Starshot, a bold initiative to send spacecraft to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is expected to launch.

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Launch known as off on account of technical snag, ISRO to announce new dates quickly

http://tinyurl.com/yywlc7gw LIVE Updates from ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 mission: India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon, named Chandrayaan 2, has been placed on maintain citing technical points, and a revised countdown is to be introduced shortly. A technical snag was noticed within the launch car at T-56th minute. As a measure of plentiful precaution, the Chandrayaan 2 launch has been known as off for at the moment, mentioned ISRO in a tweet. A revised launch date will probably be introduced later, they added. An illustration of Chandrayaan 2 orbiter lander rover composite orbiting the Moon. Picture courtesy: ISRO In a primary for India, ISRO will deposit a lander and rover on the floor of the Moon on 6 September 2019. The orbiter-lander-rover composite is predicted to make a soft-landing on a beforehand unexplored area simply 650 kilometres from the lunar South Pole. This would be the first time any mission touched down so far-off from the equator. One of many major aims is to show the flexibility to soft-land on the lunar floor. Among the many mission’s different scientific aims are experiments to map the Moon’s floor, its mineral and aspect content material, moonquakes and signatures of water-ice on the lunar floor. The mission will probably be streamed stay on DD National‘s YouTube channel and tech2’s Youtube, Facebook and Twitter handles, made accessible 30 minutes earlier than the launch window opens, at roughly 2.21 am IST on 15 July. Listed here are a choose group of tales on the mission we might advocate studying: Chandrayaan 2: Here are answers to all your questions on India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan 2 to hunt for trillion-dollar-worth Helium-3 on Moon’s surface GSLV-MkIII, the launch platform that will make Chandrayaan-2 and Gaganyaan a reality Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter: Everything you need to know about its objectives, science and design Vikram Lander: All you will need to know about the vessel carrying Chandrayaan 2 Pragyan Rover to the Moon How does ISRO’s GSLV Mk-III fare against some of the world’s most powerful rockets? Chandrayaan 2 demonstrates India’s potential, but engineering education standards need improvement to sustain innovation India plans to have a space station of its own by 2030: Here’s what we can expect A brief history of every moonshot in the history of space exploration Your information to the newest cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, reviews, opinions, stay updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. Comply with us on Twitter and Instagram or like our Facebook web page for updates all through the continued occasion in England and Wales. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)} ; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '259288058299626'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=1117108234997285"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); window.fbAsyncInit = function () { FB.init({appId: '1117108234997285', version: 2.4, xfbml: true}); // *** here is my code *** if (typeof facebookInit == 'function') { facebookInit(); } }; (function () { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); function facebookInit() { console.log('Found FB: Loading comments.'); FB.XFBML.parse(); } Source link