Gaganyaan

14 posts

Why are we going to the Moon again?

Jul 6, 2019 5 min read

Op-eds Aditya L1 Chandrayaan 1 Chandrayaan 2 Gaganyaan GSLV Mk-III Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission NASA MAVEN South Asian satellite space diplomacy

At 2:51 am on July 15, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its Chandrayaan 2 mission on board a GSLV Mk III rocket from its spaceport in Sriharikota. The rocket will place its pa…

Solutions looking for problems

Jun 15, 2019 3 min read

Op-eds Bharati script Chandrayaan 2 Chinese Space Station Elon Musk Gaganyaan Hyperloop IIT Madras Indian Space Research Organisation Indian Space Station International Space Station space science

There’s been a glut of ‘science projects’ that seem to be divorced from their non-technical aspects even when the latter are equally, if not more, important – or maybe it is just a case of these probl…