My articles on Indian space

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.

🚀 Space missions

• India aims for the Moon with launch of Chandrayaan 3

  • How Chandrayaan 3 made its historic touchdown on our Moon

  • Chandrayaan 3 slowed down by one web of perplexing priorities

  • Chandrayaan 3 mission trivia and tidbits

  • Some notable specifics of Chandrayaan 3’s historic touchdown on our Moon

  • Chandrayaan 3’s hop

• Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future

• 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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