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The eight payloads onboard Chandrayaan-2 are conducting scientific observations of the Moon by remote sensing and in-situ techniques, it said. The pact inked on Wednesday enables building a virtual constellation of specified remote sensing satellites of BRICS space agencies and their respective ground stations will receive the data, ISRO said. Planned to land on the south pole of the moon, Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, However, the lander, Vikram, hard-landed on September 7, crushing India's dream to become the first country to successfully land on the lunar surface in its maiden attempt.

The GSLV rocket, launched in the early hours of Thursday, failed to inject into the orbit the country's latest earth observation satellite EOS due to a failure to ignite the cryogenic stage of the launch vehicle, prompting the premier space agency to declare the mission could not be achieved as intended. According to sources in the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency, under the Department of Space, delivery of hardware by the industry was hit due to the lockdown imposed in several States to contain the pandemic in recent months.

The national-level Gaganyaan Advisory Council GAC will take a final call on how many uncrewed missions Isro may need to carry out after it evaluates data from the first two missions. As part of the mandate of Gaganyaan, two uncrewed flights are planned to test the end-to-end capacity for the manned mission. India has firms compared to , and in China, France and Spain, respectively.

Japan and Russia have and But we have missed the opportunity in global marketing," Nair told. India offers satellite launch services at 30 to 40 per cent lower costs compared to international prices, according to him. ISRO has lined up 14 missions for launch in , including the space agency's first unmanned mission later this year, its Chairman K Sivan said on Sunday.

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Salman Khurshid New Book. Former Isro Chairman. Amid tension with China at the Line of Actual Control, veteran space scientist G Madhavan Nair on Friday said India should ramp up its space assets and enhance coverage of the region to keep pace with the changing times.

The proposed soft-landing on the Moon on September 7 by the Chandrayaan-2 mission is by far the most complex in ISRO's history, says its former Chairman G Madhavan Nair, who is per cent sure of its success.