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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Monday said that the Chandrayaan-3- the third edition of India's mission to the moon- will be launched this July.Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface."I am very confident..." said Somnath today on the lunar mission.The ISRO chairman was speaking after the space agency successfully placed the NVS-01, the first of the second-generation satellite series, into…

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Monday said that the Chandrayaan-3- the third edition of India's mission to the moon- will be launched this July.Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface."I am very confident..." said Somnath today on the lunar mission.The ISRO chairman was speaking after the space agency successfully placed the NVS-01, the first of the second-generation satellite series, into…

In a first, China's lunar lander Chang'E-5 has successfully confirmed the presence of water on the surface of the moon in real-time. India's Chandrayan-1 was the first mission to detect water on the moon in 2008. However, its findings were not shared in real-time but later in September 2009. Other missions also mapped water on the lunar surface from the orbit. But, no mission delivered the confirmation on the presence of water in real-time until the Chang'E-5.Now, the lander has found water at its landing site near…