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My articles on Indian space missions

Jatan Mehta
Aug 19, 2022
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My articles on Indian space missions

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Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen posts within this list, and will maintain the list itself for the convenience of readers, so make sure to bookmark this page.

Missions

  • Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future

  • What we know about India's Chandrayaan 3 Moon landing mission

    • Chandrayaan 3 slowed down by one web of perplexing priorities

  • Indian Space Progress, my newsletter dedicated to covering developments across the entire (civil) Indian space landscape

  • India’s Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years

  • Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis

  • The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon

  • Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing

    • Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead

  • Reviewing Mangalyaan, India’s first Mars mission

  • Preparing for India’s Yuri Gagarin moment with Gaganyaan (old piece but some information on progress to that point is still relevant)

Science

  • How NASA and India discovered water on the Moon

  • India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole

  • India’s Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter is also a Sun watcher

  • Initial lunar science results from the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter

Opinion

  • India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

    • Debate: Mangalyaan’s low science output still reflects on ISRO

    • Again, Mangalyaan was never a scientific space mission

  • Book review: Those magnificent women and their stories that must be told

  • ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond

Interesting bits

  • Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the new Moon race

  • Views of Mars from India's Mangalyaan orbiter

  • How Chandrayaan 1 viewed a solar eclipse from the Moon

  • Explainer – Why did it take so long to find the Chandrayaan 2 lander?

Personal angle

  • I saw a rocket launch!

  • Space Q&A with r/India redditors

  • Tangent: Kids in South Korea and a Moon mission


In all, the Indian space trajectory looks promising and exciting. I can’t wait to write more about it, and do my bit in pushing Indian space, and therefore global space exploration too, forward. :D


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