Mars – Mars is also known as Red Planet due to the iron oxide or rust on the surface of this planet that gives a reddish appearance. It is the second-smallest planet in the Solar System that is larger than only Mercury and is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Mars…
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Red Planet Day 2025
Introduction – Red Planet Day is observed every year on November 28 worldwide to honor the launch of the Mariner 4 by NASA, a robotic interplanetary probe, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on November 28, 1964. This spacecraft became the first spacecraft to fly past Mars and was designed for flying past planets. It is also…
ISRO Day 2025
Introduction – ISRO is also called as National Space Day and is celebrated every year on August 23 in India to honor the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 mission through the Vikram Lander on the surface of the moon in the year 2023. After this historical moment or achievement, the Indian Government officially chose August 23 to…
ISRO launched the INSAT-3DS Meteorological Satellite successfully on February 17, 2024
It’s a very happy and exciting news for our country that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched the meteorological satellite INSAT-3DS at 5:35 pm with the mission of GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS from SDSC-SHAR Sriharikota in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It was the second mission of ISRO that was successfully launched in the year…
ISRO’s First Solar Spacecraft Aditya-L1 successfully reaches its destination and enters the Sun’s Final Orbit
It’s great or good news for our country that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully performed the final maneuver to inject the first spacecraft, Aditya L1 on January 6, 2024, and is used to study the Sun into its final destination orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth. In the year 2024, India…
Main Achievements of ISRO in the year 2023
ISRO – It stands for Indian Space Research Organization and is the national space agency of India. The main responsibility of ISRO is to perform tasks that are associated with space-based operations, the development of related technologies, international space cooperation, and space exploration. It is the government space agency that possesses full launch capabilities to…