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Anshuman (TitaniumSV5)
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Scribbles about ISRO, the Indian space industry and space in general. (Please expect occasional motorsports, automotive and tech rambles🙂)
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Results from India’s Chandrayaan 3 thermal probe experiment were published in Nature recently. Here’s a rundown of how the findings lend Moon mission planners broader, reduced risk regions for water ice prospecting instead of being limited to shaky peak polar areas: jatan.space/moon-monday-... 👀 🧊 🌘
April 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Report No. 391 by Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Demands for Grants (2025-2026) of the Department of Space
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March 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Three finalist consortium for SSLV technology transfer are Alpha Design Technologies (Adani Defence subsidiary), Bharat Dynamics Limited and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
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Three finalist consortium for SSLV technology transfer are Alpha Design Technologies ( Adani Defence subsidiary ), Bharat Dynamics Limited and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ( HAL )
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February 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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GSLV-F15 / NVS-02 : Launch scheduled on 29 January 2025, at 06:23 (IST) / 12:53 (UTC). Registration for Launch View Gallery to open at 18:00 IST today.
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From the ISRO community on Reddit: GSLV-F15 / NVS-02 : Launch scheduled on 29 January 2025, at 06:23 (IST) / 12:53 (UTC). Registration for Launch View Gallery to open at 18:00 IST today.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Three private firms shortlisted for surveillance satellites for strategic needs (SBS-3)
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3 private firms shortlisted for surveillance satellites for strategic needs
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January 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Exactly one year ago SLIM made its pin-pointing landing at an area close to Shioli crater. I wrote around that time how I used ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 OHRC to locate SLIM lander. Here's the blog post about it and the landing algo explained.

#SLIM #JAXA

moonandbeyond.blog/how-slim-jax...
SLIM: Unyielding Defiance Amidst Adversities
First ultra-high resolution image of SLIM-JAXA and an overview of its current status and its high precise landing
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January 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I now have a dedicated page to track Japanese lunar developments: https://jatan.space/tag/japan-and-selene/. This includes Moon exploration by JAXA as well as private companies like ispace.

🇯🇵 🚀 …………………… 🌙
January 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🚨 #ISRO has new Chairman! Dr. V Narayanan, Distinguished Scientist currently serving as the Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), ISRO will take charge from the current Chairman S Somanath on Jan 14th, 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A short gap in the clouds allowed a view of tonight's second pass over central Europe. SpaDeX A and SpaDeX B were about 1.8 km apart on 2025-01-05 at 18:05:07 UTC.
January 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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ISRO concludes the year 2024 with five successful launches and operationalisation of SSLV.
December 31, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Press conference - x.com/ANI/status/1...

SpaDeX docking to be shown live. Wow.

PS4 was to reach the desired orbit in an hour since SpaDeX separation.

Not the only SpaDeX. Many more missions to demonstrate bigger and more complicated docking systems.
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December 31, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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Low elevation pass of the ISRO Space Docking Experiment SpaDeX A and SpaDeX B. Recorded today, 2024-12-31, between 05:27:10 and 05:27:20 UTC from the South American site.
December 31, 2024 at 6:11 AM
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Indian Space Progress #23: How ISRO et al. laid the groundwork for a decade this year: https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-23/

#space #blog
December 24, 2024 at 3:02 PM
PSLV C60 mission page is up now - www.isro.gov.in/POEM_4_Paylo...

There are 24 payloads on POEM-4. For comparison POEM-1,2,3 combines had 21 payloads.

And we have 2 robotic arm demos too - Walking Robotic Arm(RRM-TD) and Debris Capture Robotic Manipulator😋

#ISRO
December 22, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Launch campaign of the first uncrewed Gaganyaan flight - HLVM3-G1 / OM-1 mission commenced on 18th December 2024 at SDSC, the stacking of the nozzle end segment with full flex seal nozzle of the S200 motor took place.

#ISRO

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December 18, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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Anyone want first peck at the Chandrayaan3 PM data?
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection on 16 July 2024 from VELC payload onboard ISRO's Aditya-L1 - www.isro.gov.in/Aditya_L1_Ob...

Full paper - arxiv.org/abs/2411.09408
December 10, 2024 at 11:16 AM
ISRO RESPOND Basket 2024 has been released - www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/p...
December 10, 2024 at 7:55 AM
ISRO and Indian Navy carried out well-deck recovery trials for Gaganyaan crew module on 6th December. The trials were carried out by the Eastern Naval Command using a well-deck ship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam.

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December 10, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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Carbon composite structures for Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 are now ready! ✨

🇮🇳 India's private launch provider is now gearing up towards a maiden orbital launch in 2025.
December 7, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Research article on Chandrayaan-3 Pragyan rover's Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (Pre-flight characterization, inflight operations and observations) - archive.org/details/chan...

TIL before this 3 rovers had LIBS- NASA's Curiosity, Perseverance and CNSA's Zhurong (all on Mars)
https://archive.org/details/chandr…
December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Liftoff images from today's PSLV C59/Proba-3 launch

#ISRO #ESA
December 5, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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The PSLV successfully placed the European Space Agency (ESA)'s PROBA-3 mission into a highly elliptical orbit - 600 km by 60,530 km - a first for the PSLV.

PSLV-C59 completed the mission successfully after a lift-off from SHAR at 1604 hrs IST.
December 5, 2024 at 11:18 AM
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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If you like weird space stuff, try my Soviet Space Substack, (Always Free!)

The edition in the link covers in 1987 plans for a crewed mission to Mars by nuclear means, in some detail.
1987 Nuclear Mars Mission, using Energia
A crewed Mars mission requiring 5 Energia launches.
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December 2, 2024 at 7:36 PM