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#Breaking #Update #Mars #Thread India’s Mars Orbiter Mission — #MOM — which was designed to last for 6 months when launched on Nov 5, 2013, has lost communication with the ground station, bringing an end to its life after 8 long years. 1/n Pics: 1st image & Mars dust (isro)

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#JUSTIN | Indian Institute of Science @iiscbangalore says it has installed and commissioned Param Pravega, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the country, and the largest in an Indian academic institution as part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). 1/n

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#BigNews #update #Space #India Showing that India can not only send objects to #Moon but also bring it back, @isro has brought back the #Chandrayaan3 #PropulsionModule (PM), initially intended for lunar ops, to Earth's orbit. More details in the morning.

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #thread Exclusive: Here’s some good news even before #Vikram attempts landing: With 150kg+ fuel, the PM, which was initially expected to have a life of three-six months, is expected to live on for several years. 1/n Pic: #Vikram in pre-landing oribt | Isro

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #thread Amid nervous excitement that grips Isro teams at control rooms with engineers & scientists double-checking every detail of mission plan & verifying calculations, Isro Chairman S Somanath exuded confidence of a successful soft-landing on Aug 23. 1/n

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #Space #Pragyan , whose rear wheels are embossed with the national emblem & Isro logo, has been unable to leave a “clear” imprint of the two, which is a good sign as it gives a new understanding of the properties of the soil in the south pole region. 1/n

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#Update #Space #India #Chandrayaan3 #Thread As #Vikram & #Pragyan complete half their designed life, hopes of them springing back to life again after the long night that’ll follow this week, ends increase. Read more from my chat with mission ops director M Srikanth (in pic). 1/n

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 #thread #Pragyan , has negotiated its first obstacle — a crater whose depth is approximately 100mm — boosting confidence of the team in control stations back on Earth. Read on for more from my chat with project director P Veeramuthuvel. 1/n

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#JUSTIN #Important #Thread Indian radar-imaging satellite — #Risat2 — has made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and landed at the predicted impact point in the Indian Ocean near Jakarta. 1/n

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#BigNews #update #Space #India Just weeks after PMO made India’s space roadmap public in Oct, @isro appears confident of building the 1st unit of #Spacestation in just 5yrs ('28). @isro 2047 roadmap has multiple lunar missions, has goals of eventually offering Moon tourism. 1/n

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #Space Here we go: Three days after Sunrise on #Moon , @isro has heard nothing from #Vikram and #Pragyan even as hopes of them getting a second innings on the lunar surface continue to be harboured. "Wait will go on for the whole lunar day." 1/n

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#update #Chandrayaan3 When #Vikram touched down on #Moon , it kicked up a bunch of lunar dust & rocks, creating a bright area around it, as was expected. As it descended & subsequently touched down, it triggered the activation of its descent stage thrusters… 1/n

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #Thread On a day India’s solar sat began its 1.5 mn-km journey, its lunar mission achieved all its objectives, paving the way for @isro to put #Vikram & #Pragyan to sleep on Sunday. Read on for exclusive details from project director P Veeramuthuvel. 1/n

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#Update #Space #thread @isro , which successfully carried out an in-flight abort test as part of #Gaganyaan last week will attempt an integrated air drop test involving dropping of the crew module from a helicopter next, while other abort tests are scheduled thereafter. 1/n

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India’s biggest #rocket key to building space station & eventually sending Indians to #Moon , is not just on paper anymore. #NGLV is taking off. Read on for details on project team & more. 1/n PS: I'll share link of 42min interview (unlike last time) soon as edit is over.

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#Update #Space #Thread (long) Here We Go With All The Details: #Chandrayaan -3, will lift off at 2.35pm on July 14 onboard #GSLVMk3 or #LVM3 and if all goes as per plan, #Vikram will land on August 23 or 24. 1/n

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#Update #India I have it confirmed. This @IAF_MCC video has actual astronaut designates training for #Gaganyaan . The four test pilots are part of a team from which the final astronauts going to #space will be picked. One of them could even go to @Space_Station next year.

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#Update Been under the weather the last couple of days. Another weekend, another key launch. A 3-in-1 mission for @isro on Nov 26: #PSLVC54 to launch 7 commercial, one diplomatic & 1 main national satellites. #Thread to put things in one place, I may not be around tomorrow: 1/n

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#Update #Space #India Come January, a petite European spacecraft, christened #Bikini , will hitch a ride aboard India’s trusted #PSLV , soaring to a staggering altitude of 500km before making a re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and plunging into the deep sea. 1/n

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 #thread As the euphoria continues with India naming #Vikram landing sites, here’s something more. @isro chairman Somanath has confirmed to me that Vikram “did not need to use any of the #redundancies . It was a picture-perfect landing! 1/n Pic: Isro

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#Space #update On #Gaganyaan timelines, Isro chief Somanath today said: “If everything goes well, if all 3 [uncrewed] missions go well, we'll have the manned mission. So we’re not putting a very tight timeline… I don’t want to end up like what happened with #Boeing .” 1/n

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#Update #Space #India #debris The cryogenic upper stage (CUS) of the launch vehicle that launched India’s #Chandrayaan3 , the LVM3-M4, has made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, Isro has confirmed. 1/n

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#SpacePolicy2023 #thread #India India’s Space Policy 2023, which was cleared by the union cabinet Thursday will aim to enhance the country’s share in the global space economy through increased private participation, @isro chairman S Somanath says. 1/n

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#Breaking #Space @isro successfully completed the #RLVLEX the landing experiment of the re-usable launch vehicle at Challakere. Mission went on as planned. IAF's Chinook was used to drop RLV from 4.5km. It may have even set a record. More details & pics later.

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#Update #Thread Four years after success eluded India & @isro , they're on the cusp of making history again. If all goes well, #Vikram will land at 6.04pm. As #Chandrayaan3 reaches for Moon today, read what’s in store & what brought Vikram & Pragyan here 1/n

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A big show is expected from @isro on Aug 15, the 75th #IndependenceDay . From what I've heard, all of you will experience it. Unfortunately, I cannot share any more at this moment. A formal announcement is impending. But remember this date & tweet at the time. :)

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#Update #Space #India #thread Two days after #Chandrayaan3 landing, @isro released this video of #Pragyan rolling out from #Vikram . All systems healthy. Let's look at more & also how much data #Chandrayaan2 orbiter (around the #Moon since 2019) has sent so far. 1/n

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#JUSTIN #SPACE The NASA-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar ( #Nisar ) landed in Bengaluru on Tuesday on a US Airforce C-17 from NASA-JPL in California, setting the stage for final integration of the Earth observation satellite. Pics: US Consulate

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#Thread #Update #Space Here We Go: @isro , which is attempting to launch #Chandrayaan3 at 2.35pm Friday (Jul 14) onboard #LVM3 , has spent nearly 4yrs — after #Chandrayaan2 failure — anticipating failure scenarios and ensuring they’re addressed. Scroll down for more... 1/n

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#JUSTIN #thread (short) As #Chandrayaan3 #Vikram prepares for 2nd deboost in 4 hrs, #Luna25 suffers a glitch. It is not clear if this affects the landing. A translated Roscosmos statement: Today, at 14:10 an impulse was issued to transfer station to pre-landing orbit... 1/2

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#Update #Space #Gaganyaan Details from a high-level meeting chaired by PM suggest India could send #astronauts into space & bring them back safely in 2025, while PM has set more ambitious goals of a space station by 2035 & humans on #Moon by 2040 for @isro & DoS. 1/n

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#JUSTIN #Rockets #India #Space India’s first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S — is undergoing final launch preparations at @isro launchpad in Sriharikota and is expected to be launched in a suborbital mission later this week. 1/n

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#Update #Gaganyaan #Space #thread Isro’s bid to improve #LVM3 ’s weight-lifting capacity has crossed a significant milestone with LPSC qualifying a critical component that powers the cryogenic upper stage (CUS) for #Gaganyaan with a higher thrust. 1/n

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Another Important Development. #Thread Today, @isro said its lead rocket development facility, the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), facilitated the hot-testing of a rocket engine developed by an Indian space start-up, on November 4. 1/n

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#JUSTIN #UPDATE #Thread @isro completed the first blow down test of the newly installed Trisonic Wind Tunnel at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), the space agency’s lead rocket-building agency, on Thursday. 1/n

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#JUSTIN #Space #Chandrayaan3 #Thread In the “first-ever in-situ” measurements in the lunar polar region, the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope — #LIBS — onboard #Pragyan has “unambiguously confirmed the presence of Sulphur (S) in the lunar surface near the south pole”. 1/n

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#Update #Space #thread @isro , which has its eyes set on multiple big missions — in-orbit servicer, lunar sample return mission, docking in space (SPADEX), Mars Lander Mission etc — is looking to launch at least 2 more missions this year. (also read thread for #NISAR update) 1/n

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#Update #Thread #Space The #SSLV , @isro ’s newest rocket that failed to put payloads in the desired orbit in its first technology demonstration mission in August is being readied for a second mission, which is expected to be in early 2023. 1/n

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 Here we go: @isro , which had kept “some circuits” alive for its ground stations to hear from the Moon in the event of Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover — Vikram and Pragyan — waking up again, is yet to hear anything so far. 1/n

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#Update #Space #breaking Gp Capts Prashanth Nair & Shubhanshu Shukla picked to go to US. Shukla will be prime mission pilot while Nair will be a backup. This comes over a yr after PM Modi, during his state visit said an Indian astronaut will travel to @Space_Station . 1/n

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#Update #Space #India #thread (short) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is keen on #GSLVMk3 or #LVM3 to be used as a crew capsule to service its Orbital Reef, a LEO space station being designed for commercial space activities and space tourism uses, @isro chairman S Somanth told me. 1/n

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Scientists from SAC and PRL recently demonstrated quantum entanglement based real time Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over 300m atmospheric channel along with quantum-secure text, image transmission and quantum-assisted two-way video calling. @isro

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Everything going as per the plan as of now with #Chandrayaan3 . I have the confirmation that mission readiness review (MRR) committee has given its nod. Next will be launch authorisation board (LAB) clearance. Countdown to be for 25-and-a-half hours. All set to go.

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The countdown process of #PSLVC52 launch commenced early morning. Launch at 5.59am tomorrow: @isro

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#Space #India #thread Here we go: #Chandrayaan3 PM's return to an Earth orbit, weeks after Aug 23 lunar hop by #Vikram , has provided Isro with a shot in the arm to expedite India’s next #Moon mission that aims to bring back samples from Moon — #Chandrayaan4 (details below) 1/n

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Here we go: #Breaking | S Somanath appointed @isro chief. Among other things, he's credited with “energising activities of high thrust semi-cryo engine, hardware realisation & test prog, #Chandrayaan2 lander throttleable engines & electric propulsion in GSAT-9. Full story soon.

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Expect something on the #space front. Announcement most likely today from what I've heard so far. I'm not getting into details now because we cannot rule out surprises. Will keep updating here as and when I hear more. It may even get postponed. #DeptOfSpace @isro

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#JUSTIN #Sun #Space #India #Thread India’s first solar mission, #AdityaL1 , which Isro hopes to launch by the end of August or early September, has reached the spaceport in Sriharikota. 1/n Pics: Isro

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#Update #Space #Thread With all things having gone as planned so far, @isro will attempt to slingshot — through #TLI — between 12am and 1am Aug 1. This means only six days left for #Chandrayaan3 to reach the lunar orbit. Scroll down for more on TLI. 1/n

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#UPDATE #JUSTIN Second Earth-bound manoeuvre done to increase #Chandrayaan3 perigee today in the evening. Perigee now at a little more than 220km. Three more EBMs this week before TLI. Official note may come a bit later. Pic: For representation /credit: @isro

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#Thread #Update In a key milestone, #Chandrayaan3 project team, which is burning the midnight oil to meet the mid-July window for the launch, has begun the process of final assembly of payloads at the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru. 1/n

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Here We Go: #Update #Thread As #GSLVMk3 or #LVM3 prepares for its second commercial launch, @isro efforts on enhancing its weight-lifting capacity is gaining pace. I hear that the qualification tests for semi-cryo (SC120) are expected to be completed in a couple of months. 1/n

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Expect a #GSLVMk3 or #LVM3 update later today, or latest by early tomorrow. There may be some good development. Hoping to get more in the next few hours. I've already given a hint on what it could be.

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#JUSTIN #Thread #Space Space-tech start-up @AgnikulCosmos today said it has established India’s first launchpad designed and operated by a private player. The facility, situated at Sriharikota, was inaugurated by Isro chairman S Somanath on Nov 25. 1/n

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#Update #Space At least 10 firms, both big and small, have shown interest in being part of @NSIL -INDIA efforts to allow the private sector to build #LVM3 , India’s biggest rocket. 1/n Pic: Isro

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#JUSTIN #Update #Space Space PSU @NSIL_India has signed an MoU with French satellite launch provider @Arianespace to establish a long-term partnership that'll see use of @isro #LVM3 for global launches. 1/n Pic: Isro

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Expect @isro to conduct an important experiment involving the #RLVTD in 3-4 months. It is looking to carry out the landing Experiment (RLV-LEX) that'll will push RLV closer to an ORE (orbital re-entry experiment). #Thread 1/n Link:

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Here We Go: #Thread #Space #India The first abort test using the special test vehicle (TV) part of #Gaganyaan , which was earlier targeted for the last quarter of this calendar year, is now expected only in early 2023. 1/n

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#Space #Thread #Gaganyaan @isro has completed the 650-seconds test to demonstrate nominal re-entry of the propulsion system of #Gaganyaan crew module (CM) and also some key qualification tests for human-rated #L110 Vikas engine. 1/n

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 #thread A day after #Vikram set the stage for a controlled landing for around 6.04pm on Aug 23 by entering a pre-landing orbit of 25km x 134km, Isro released pics of the far side of #Moon . Read thread for more... 1/n Pics: Isro

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Expect some specific details on the #Chandrayaan3 later today or early tomorrow as I'm scheduled to get some info soon. Just waiting for another confirmation. Arrived in Chennai this morning. Will be heading to Sriharikota Friday.

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Almost for the first time since I've been able to think for myself, the whole of Shivajinagar in Bengaluru is shut. Tens of them have gathered to protest #CAA_NRC . Here's a glimpse of what's happening. Pics: Sunil Prasad

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Expect a #Gaganyaan related development today. Personally, I’ve been waiting for this for a while and I heard this morning that it is happening today. Waiting for at least a second confirmation from within @isro . #Space #UPDATE

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Two #Gaganyaan crew abort tests & #Aditya top priority this yr. @isro will look to launch a relay sat too. Dept of Space, which got Rs 13.7k-cr in Budget has outcome targets for sat launches: 5 PSLV, 2 GSLV, 2 SSLV. #Thread Story:

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#JUSTIN #Space #Update #Chandrayaan3 is all geared up for #Moonlanding . Here's the plan as of today: — #Vikram Perliune at present: 25km — Landing day remains August 23 — Power descent to begin at around 5.45pm — Landing time set for around 6.04pm Pic: Isro

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Here's more on the #PSLVC52 mission success: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), after a 5.59am liftoff and a textbook launch profile injected #EOS04 — an Earth Observation Sat — into an intended sun synchronous polar orbit (529km) altitude at 6.17am. @isro #Thread 1/n

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 As @isro burns the midnight oil on Earth, waiting to hear again from #Vikram & #Pragyan , principal investigators of instruments on the two have begun sifting through data for new findings. 1/n

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Here's the #Gaganyaan update #Thread @isro has operationalised the basic or ad hoc astronaut training facility near ISITE in Bengaluru which has been commissioned specifically for Gaganyaan programme. 1/n

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Expect a #Gaganyaan related development today. Personally, I’ve been waiting for this for a while and I heard this morning that it is happening today. Waiting for at least a second confirmation from within @isro . #Space #UPDATE

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Yesterday, I was at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota. It was a beehive of activity and things looked good for tomorrow's mission. There’s also some details on #Gaganyaan prep (see story) from director Rajarajan (whose video interview is under production). @isro all set for a #splashdown

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#Thread (short) #Update @Isro has conducted the “Rail Track Rocket Sled” deployment tests of #Gaganyaan pilot & apex cover separation (ACS) parachutes in cluster configurations at the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) between March 1 and 3. 1/n Pics: Isro

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#Update #Thread #Space #India #Japan @isro , whose #Chandrayaan3 is on its journey towards #Moon , may have to build new lander engines for #LUPEX with @JAXA_en . The main objective of the mission is to confirm the presence of water in the polar regions of the moon. 1/n Pic: JAXA

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@isro is working out the details of whether the spacecraft ran out of fuel and battery power, or whether communication was lost because of an automated manoeuvre while moving out of a long eclipse changing the direction of the antenna. 2/n

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#Update #Space #thread As #Cricket fever grips India, another headline-hogger, #Chandrayaan3 , did not get a ‘second innings’ on #Moon where the Sun has set for the second time since the soft-landing on Aug 23, making way for another long, cold night. 1/n

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Expect an #Update related to the #Gaganyaan mission tomorrow. I could not add it with today's as I'm awaiting another confirmation, which I should have post afternoon or latest by evening tomorrow.

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Defence PSU @HALHQBLR ’s new helicopter factory, spread across 615 acres in Tumakuru is all geared to start phase-1 operations years after it was first conceived. 1/n #Thread #India #Defence #Helicopters

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#space #updates #breaking : There are some key developments unravelling related to some important missions/projects by @isro in the coming weeks. I'll soon be putting out something on #Chandrayaan3 #RLVLEX (reusable launch vehicle landing experiment) & #SSLV . #Thread 1/n

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Expect a #Gaganyaan related #update either late evening today or early tomorrow. This is about the overall mission requirement and not specific to TV-D1, TV-D2 or the G1, G2 missions. #space #UPDATE #India (Pic for representation)

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And the four #Gaganyaan #astronauts are: Gp Capts Prashanth Nair, Ajit Krishnan, Angad Prathap and Wing Co Shubhanshu Shukla. I'd got three of the four names out in today's TOI, correctly indicated by sources outside of @isro . One name (Chauhan) was off. All four are test pilots

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#JustIn #Thread #Space @isro on July 1 conducted the 1st hot test on an intermediate configuration of the Semi-cryo Engine, known as Power Head Test Article (PHTA). Test was conducted towards developing a 2000 kN thrust semi-cryo engine to power booster stages of future LVs. 1/n

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#Thread #Update #HumansInSpace As most of us were caught up with #VikramS , @isro ’s #Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Friday conducted a major development test of #Gaganyaan crew module deceleration system at Babina Field Fire Range (BFFR) in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. 1/n

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#BREAKING First dedicated commercial sat launch mission by @NSIL_India — #GSAT24 built by @isro — separates from #Ariane5 above the Indian Ocean, 40 mins after lift off from French Guina. Mission success. Signal acquisition awaited. Video: @Arianespace channel

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India, which has been pushing reforms in the #Space sector is witnessing, as anticipated, an increase in the number of startups which has been reiterated in #EconomicSurvey that was released today. From 1 in 2012, it's 101 in 2021. Full Story:

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#Thread #Space #UPDATE @isro has officially said the NASA-Isro SAR ( #NISAR ), a LEO observatory being jointly developed with @NASA “shall be launched from Indian soil in Q1 of 2024”, and its science operations will begin 90 days after it reaches the intended orbit. 1/n Pic: JPL

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#Thread #Gaganyaan #Space @isro , which has completed the 1st sem training of #Gaganyaan astronaut-elects, is in the process of realising (procuring & installing) two key simulators, while two are already in place at the Astronaut Training Facility in Bengaluru. 1/n Pics: Isro

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Now now. #RSS denies journalists entry to event in Kalabiragi because they weren't wearing the Sangh's uniform. "Our workers who didn't come in uniform too were sent back," the local in-charge says.

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#BREAKING : The four astronaut-elects part of #Gaganyaan , who left for Russia on Friday, have begun their 12-month long training on Monday at Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Russia. Pic Credit: @glavkosmosJSC Fulll story:

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#Breaking #JUSTIN #Space #India MoS Jitendra Singh just announced that the Union cabinet has cleared Indian #SpacePolicy2023 . The policy has been pending for a while now. More details on this later...

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#JUSTIN #Space #Update @isro , which on March 22 did the 2nd landing experiment of reusable launch vehicle ( #RLV ) — “ #RLVLEX02 ” — today conducted the 3rd & last landing test ( #RLVLEX03 ), paving the way for an orbital re-entry test. 1/n Pic: Isro (from lex2). New pics awaited

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#Update #space Sorry, I've been caught up with something... But here's another update: The Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar ( #Nisar ) satellite launch, which was expected to happen in March is unlikely before the end of May. 1/n Pics: @isro

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 #SHAPE on #Chandrayaan3 propulsion module, which has been orbiting the Moon for 54 days now, has sent sufficient data in its operations so far, and will continue to work longer. 1/n Pic: Illustration from separation day shared by @isro

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#Update #space Group Captains Shubhanshu Shukla & Prashanth Nair, who reached Houston, US, late Saturday night to be part of the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), have begun their training routine. 1/n Pics: Axiom & Isro

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#JUSTIN #UPDATE #Space @isro has successfully completed the Hot Test of Service Module Propulsion System of the #Gaganyaan mission. Test involved 5 liquid apogee motor (LAM) engines with a thrust of 440 N and 16 reaction control system (RCS) Thrusters with a thrust of 100 N.

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #Vikram & #Pragyan may be asleep after a job well done, but the story of how India went to #Moon remains untold in its full length. Space & time constraints will have an impact on the story, but expect it soon with voices, pics you've not heard, seen before

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#Update #Space #Chandrayaan3 #thread Days after one of #Pragyan instruments confirmed presence of Sulphur, another instrument on the rover has confirmed the same, through another technique. #Vikram has also captured a video (attached/credit: Isro) of Pragyan... Read on 1/n

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#Update #Space #India #Thread As @isro prepares for the critical #Chandrayaan3 landing module — #Vikram (with #Pragyan ) — separation later today. Here’s what happened yesterday & what needs to happen hereafter. 1/n Pic: Moon as imaged by LHVC on Aug 9 | Credit: Isro

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Expect a #GSLVMk3 or #LVM3 update later today, or latest by early tomorrow. There may be some good development. Hoping to get more in the next few hours. I've already given a hint on what it could be.

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#JUSTIN #Rockets #Space From ignition to splashdown Skyroot's #VikramS mission will last around 291 secs. Hopes to achieve an Apogee of 81km around 139 secs after ignition. Skyroot will use its own launcher from SRC tomorrow.

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#Gaganyaan #Update #Abort @isro has moved one step closer to conducting an abort test using the special test vehicle ( #TV ) as part of #Gaganyaan with the space agency having received the Simulated Crew Module (SCM) Structure Assembly. 1/n

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#Update #Chandrayaan3 #Space Hours before it went to sleep, #Vikram performed a “short #hop ” — elevated by 40cm, landed about 40cm away — learnings from which could help future sample return, human missions. Read on to know the how, when & more. Detailed #Thread 1/n

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#Space #update India, whose #lunar ambitions have been more clearly articulated now than a decade ago, is firing on all engines with the Nat'l Space Commission clearing the 5th lunar mission — #Lupex (Imp details in thread). 1/n Watch: Pic: @JAXA_en

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#Thread #Update #Space @isro , which has completed over 200 missions, developed multiple cutting-edge tech, including spin-offs directly benefiting healthcare and other sectors, is scouting for a consultancy firm to conduct a socio-economic impact audit of the space prog. 1/n

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#Gaganyaan #Update_News #Thread @isro , which has finalised several aspects of the mission planning for G1 (first uncrewed mission), has proposed to send unpressurised crew modules during both the test vehicle demonstrations that will precede G1 and the G1 too. 1/n

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