Indian Space Research Organisation will launch its second lunar mission ChandrayaanII in the first quarter of next year.
The space agency’s second indigenous mission to the earth’s satellite will be equipped with upgraded domestic space technology.
ISRO Chairman, Kiran Kumar told media that Chandrayaan-I had an impact probe, which crash landed on moon’s surface, but Chandrayaan-II will have a controlled descent of a rover which will perform in-situ lunar surface observations for 14 Earth days and the data will be relayed back for further analysis.
CHANDRAYAAN-2 will have an orbiter that will go around the moon in circles of radius 100 kilometers.
A lander will come out of it and make a soft landing on the chosen territory of the moon.
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“Afterwards, a Rover will eject from it and move on wheels on the lunar surface.
The Rover will have many advanced payloads that will gather valuable data by analysing the lunar surface.
The data will be collected from the Rover by the orbiter, which will relay them to the ISRO’s facilities.
The orbiter, the Lander and the Rover, all three have been developed by India.
It is set to give further fillip to India’s more extra planetary missions in future.
The Sri Lankan government today handed over the operations of Hambantota port to two companies having majority Chinese stake.
With this, Hambantota International Port Group and Hambantota International Port Services will begin port operations in the south of country, considered a strategic place in the Indian Ocean.
Hambantota port was initially built with Chinese loan during earlier regime but it could not become a profitable venture forcing Sri Lankan government to lease the port operations for 99 years.
Several nations including India have expressed concern over the debt burden created by such huge infrastructure projects for small countries like Sri Lanka.
China has warned its citizens in Pakistan to keep a low profile, saying it has received intelligence reports of plans for imminent terror attacks.
The Chinese Embassy in Islamabad posted the unusual alert on its website.
The embassy statement said, it is understood that terrorists plan in the near term to launch a series of attacks against Chinese organizations and personnel in Pakistan.
It did not provide details on the nature of the terrorist threat but urged all Chinese nationals to enhance personal security, limit outdoor trips as much as possible and avoid crowded public places.
UN has rejected the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital.
The decision was taken at a special United Nations Security Council meeting last night.
The UN move is expected to set off alarms about the risk of escalating conflict in West Asia.
The UN in a statement, at the end of the meeting said the status of Jerusalem must be determined through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians to reach at a final status agreement.
Widespread protests continue in West Asia in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters held demonstrations in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Tunisia and Iran. Protesters also rallied in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia.
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed two Hamas militants today, as unrest simmered across the Palestinian territories over US President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A total of four people have been killed and dozens wounded since Trump announced his deeply controversial decision which drew criticism from every other member of the UN Security Council at an emergency meeting yesterday.
The Israeli military said, today’s pre-dawn air strike on a base of Hamas’s military wing in Nusseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, was one of several. It followed three rocket attacks last night from Gaza into southern Israel.
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