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Today M's address at ISRO will be telecast live at 11:30 "Chandrayaan-3 Addressing by Honorable Prime Minister-Live Event"

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LAl3CoGtSuQ Gold mine interview with Somnath (even though title says Sivan but Somnath interview in the second half). No redundancies were required or used by VIKRAM, Landing was handled by the inertial unit. The LXXXX cameras were not used is what I understood which is a bit odd because VIKRAM did...

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President of India tweeted Pragyan deployed I once again congratulate the ISRO team and all fellow citizens for successful deployment of Pragyan-rover from inside Vikram-lander. Its rolling out a few hours after the landing of Vikram marked the success of yet another stage of Chandrayan 3. I look f...

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SSSalvi wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023 07:48
Cyrano wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023 00:28
BTW, who makes our camera optics ? ISRO? DRDO? Pvt Co?
thanks.
Fully ISRO product

I thought the lens is normally procured from Zeiss (Germany) but the rest of the camera is indigenous or am I wrong?

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Rover's solar panel is deployed and upright: ---snip image-- (that happened hours ago, but I was so busy surfing I forgot to post it) Looks like the solar panel was deployed while still on the ramp. There are some stones right after the off ramp. The rover's dimensions are 3 feet x 2.5 feet x 2.8 f...

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Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon

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India's historic Chandrayaan-3 moon landing celebrated by ISS astronauts

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Over 3,000 wind tunnel tests of Chandrayaan-3 launch vehicle done at Bengaluru facility “Based on these wind tunnel tests, the configuration underwent major design changes in 2014-2015. All stages of LVM3 with Chandrayaan-3 payload fairing were acoustically characterised in this facility and cleare...

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Some useful updates from Richard Stephenson who works at the Canberra DSN and seems to be part of the Canberra team assisting with Chandrayaan 3 Richard Stephenson @nascom1 · Aug 20 Chandrayaan 2 hasn't been tracked on the DSN since 2019. Madrid's DSS54 has just conducted a re-validation test in re...

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Chandrayaan-3 Mission:

‘Thanks for the ride, mate!

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said the Lander Module (LM).

LM is successfully separated from the Propulsion Module (PM)

LM is set to descend to a slightly lower orbit upon a deboosting planned for tomorrow around 1600 Hrs., IST.

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yQRQFJIJjLo This is historic. We are witnessing a historic moment of reform to India's Criminal Justice system. Its still WIP and up for consultation but headed in the right direction Comments I posted in my WA group: My understanding is: I have not seen the new bills and am not a lawyer but the in...

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I think this needs to be here - I'll cross post in Bollywood and India Australia threads. This is one hell of a hit job. Bollywood: The politics behind the scenes Who are Avani Das, Naomi Selvaratnam and the JNU prof Ira Bhaskar? I have never heard of them. AI Summary. The article discusses the alle...

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I think this needs to be here - I'll cross post in Bollywood and India Australia threads. This is one hell of a hit job. [url=Bollywood: The politics behind the scenes]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-10/bollywood-the-politics-behind-the-scenes/102602046[/url] Who are Avani Das, Naomi Selvaratnam...

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कारगिल युद्ध की अनसुनी कहानी | Sensational Podcast With Vikram Jit Singh, Journalist In this episode of Mor Talks, Watch Mr. Vikram Jit Singh, a Kargil War correspondent who witnessed the war firsthand. Vikram shares his experiences of the war, from the planning and execution of the Indian military...

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How [Buddhist] statues looted from a Cambodian field wound up in the National Gallery of Australia

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I just returned from a month long trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The Indic civilisational connect is obvious and stares one in the face. From my travels, it appears, the people of Cambodia and Lao have a greater awareness and appreciation of their Indic civilisational connects. Vietnam not so m...

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More than picking up used machines. We need to learn how to make said machines. That is more important than just picking up used machines. Some might remember the red hot debate on BRF with SS (where is he these days?) versus others in relation to significance and need of making the machines that m...

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ramana wrote: ↑17 Jul 2023 07:31 RahulM, I saw a ppt of 11 changes between CY-2 and -3 and one of them is less instruments due to using CY-2 as the relay.

If you are on TG can send the file.

Emailed TG id to you

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HaE2t8uwHEQ WION has produced a Gold mine interview with M Sankaran, ISRO Satellite Centre Director This is an AI generated summary. There may be inaccuracies. 00:00:00 - 00:15:00 In an exclusive interview with M. Sankaran, the Director of India's ISRO Satellite Centre, he discusses the complexitie...

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Nice 3D Animation of full CY3 journey

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Chandrayaan 3 page on NASA A new data point (for me) from this page: Chandrayaan 2 will also be used as a backup relay for comms with Earth. Focusing on comms and telemetry (the unsexy stuff :D for a bit). Propulsion Module S-Band Transponder (TTC) with IDSN (Indian Deep Space Network) Lander: ISDN...

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How India's Chandrayaan-3 will reach the Moon I know its the Pee Pee Lee but the orbit raising and transfer to lunar orbiting landing graphic is nice.

An animation on CY3 orbit raising and capture into Lunar orbit

That is one hell of a thunderous roar - not the rocket, the kids cheering!

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https://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/chandrayaan-3-second-op-around-done-closest-point-to-earth-perigee-raised-to-around-220km/articleshow/101804633.cms 2nd orbit raising maneovure done. Perigee at 220 km and will remain there for next three orbit maneovure. Dates to watch: July 18, 20 and 25 - ...

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sanman wrote: ↑15 Jul 2023 03:52

From this vdo achieved orbit was 175 x 36,500 kms

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Just returned from my units annual weekend exercise. Congratulations to ISRO and Bharat on the 1st step of CY3's ultimate objective on a Lunar soft landing (Vikram) and then Rover (Pragyan) deployment. Dilbu-ullah has saved the day, once again. The first post launch parameter to check will be the in...

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The problem is pathetic attitude of drivers. For so long they have been used to single lane highway. With speeds limited to 20 to 40 kph. That habits developed for those carry on to express ways. With disastrous consequences. Don't blame signages and signals on express way as well. Because people d...

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Thx Disha for starting this thread. I am deploying with my unit for the annual weekend exercise from tomorrow (Friday). I will be in a no coverage area in the Australian bush and will miss the launch. It will be the first ISRO launch in the last 20 odd years that I will miss. :-( I will catch up wit...

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Ahead of the imminent launch, collecting info: Chandrayaan 3 details. Some nice CAD renderings here not seen in the Brochure Curtain raiser video https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan3_gallery.html The first post launch parameter to check will be the injection orbit after separation from CUS25 - marki...

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K. Sivan speaks on CY2 and CY3 ZZNjJPk_LaM This is an AI generated summary. There may be inaccuracies. 00:00:00 - 00:05:00 Former ISRO chief K Sivan shares insights and progress regarding the Chandrayaan-2 mission and the upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission. While the landing and roving objectives of Cha...

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School Bus Collides With SUV On Delhi-Meerut Expressway, 6 Killed Bus driver merrily driving on the wrong side. Gadkari can build all the expressways. What to do about the monkeys who flout rules, drive on these and kill people? Breaking rules generally and driving on the wrong side is normalised -...

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Chandrayaan 3 Mission brochure

Chandrayaan-3 mission:
The ‘Launch Rehearsal’ simulating the entire launch preparation and process lasting 24 hours has been concluded.

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Good nuts-n-bolts nitty-gritty talk between Gareeb Scientist and ISRO Chairman Somnath on Chandrayaan-3: .. I like Somnath's full command of knowledge on all aspects. He is a very good hands-on ISRO chief, immediately able to fluently discuss any and all aspects in expert detail. You beat me to it!...

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S Somnath on CY2 and CY3. There are many vdo's out there on this topic but in my opinion, in this single vdo, Shri Somnath explains the issues with CY2 and fixes in CY3 well. gGv4qpSSl3w This is an AI generated summary. There may be inaccuracies. · Summary "In this YouTube video, the ISRO Chief...

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India's first domestically built 700 MW nuclear reactor starts commercial operations in Gujarat "The Economic Times article reports that India's first domestically-built 700 MW nuclear reactor has commenced commercial operations in Gujarat. The reactor, known as the Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant...

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qFbH9EiYzyU Impressive speed of restoration and AV was there on site all the time until the lines were restored. This vdo shows the first (goods) train to pas thru post restoration. I am surprised its a elec loco. To me it looks like a WAG9 with empty wagons. This means OHE has been fully restored ...

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Vande Bharat: Russia’s TMH-RVNL consortium emerges lowest bidder As per the tender conditions, the lowest bidder (L1) will be awarded to manufacture, supply and maintenance of 120 trains while the remaining 80 trains would be awarded to produce to the second lowest bidder provided that the bidder m...

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Alstom emerges as lowest bidder for 100 aluminium Vande Bharat trains Its a massive order book. "Another interesting point to note is that Alstom made a strategic decision to bid with a lower price point for the alluminium trains when compared to their bid for steeel trains. This means that th...

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4m fairing (up from 3.4m) means larger satellites can be launched.

Brochure

Space qualified desi rubidium clock

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