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# My articles on Indian space
- URL: https://jatan.space/indian-space/
- Published: 2022-08-19T12:33:53.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-24T10:34:18.000Z
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Articles, Indian Space, Explore

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](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-3/)

  - [How Chandrayaan 3 made its historic touchdown on our Moon](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-3-makes-historic-touchdown/)
  - [Chandrayaan 3 slowed down by one web of perplexing priorities](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-100/)
  - [Chandrayaan 3 mission trivia and tidbits](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-135/)
  - [Some notable specifics of Chandrayaan 3’s historic touchdown on our Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-142/)
  - [Chandrayaan 3’s hop](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-143/)
- [Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future](https://jatan.space/isro-space-science-missions-2020-2025/)
- [Indian Space Progress](https://blog.jatan.space/s/indian-space-progress/archive), my newsletter dedicated to covering developments across the entire (civil) Indian space landscape
- [India’s Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years](https://jatan.space/isro-venus-orbiter-launch-2024/)
- [Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-1/)
- [The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-2-is-creating-the-highest-resolution-map-of-the-moon/)
- [Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing](https://jatan.space/isro-chandrayaan-2-moon-landing-mission/)

  - [Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-2-landing-failure-and-the-road-ahead/)
- [Reviewing Mangalyaan, India’s first Mars mission](https://jatan.space/reviewing-mission-mangalyaan/)
- [Preparing for India’s Yuri Gagarin moment with Gaganyaan](https://jatan.space/astronauts-begin-training-for-gaganyaan-in-russia/) (old piece but some information on progress to that point is still relevant)

## 🛰️ Science

- [How NASA and India discovered water on the Moon](https://jatan.space/how-nasa-and-chandrayaan-discovered-water-on-the-moon/)
- [India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole](https://jatan.space/on-the-verge-of-revealing-a-singularity/)
- [India’s Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter is also a Sun watcher](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-2-orbiter-is-also-a-sun-watcher/)
- [Initial lunar science results from the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-44/)

## 🧐 Opinion

- [India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?](https://jatan.space/missing-science-from-mangalyaan/)

  - [Debate: Mangalyaan’s low science output still reflects on ISRO](https://jatan.space/debate-missing-science-from-mangalyaan-still-reflects-on-isro/)
  - [Again, Mangalyaan was never a scientific space mission](https://jatan.space/how-to-honor-mangalyaan/)
- [Book review: Those magnificent women and their stories that must be told](https://jatan.space/book-review-those-magnificent-women-and-their-stories/)
- [ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-and-lunar-night-survival/)

## ✨ Interesting bits

- [Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the new Moon race](https://jatan.space/interviewing-isro-chandrayaan-1-mission-director/)
- [Views of Mars from India's Mangalyaan orbiter](https://jatan.space/views-of-mars-from-mangalyaan/)
- [How Chandrayaan 1 viewed a solar eclipse from the Moon](https://jatan.space/chandrayaan-1-captures-solar-eclipse/)
- [Explainer – Why did it take so long to find the Chandrayaan 2 lander?](https://jatan.space/finding-the-chandrayaan-2-lander/)

## 💛 Personal angle

- [I saw a rocket launch!](https://jatan.space/i-saw-a-rocket-launch/)
- [Space Q&A with r/India redditors](https://jatan.space/ama-on-subreddit-india/)
- Tangent: [Kids in South Korea and a Moon mission](https://jatan.space/moon-moment-for-south-korea/)

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*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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