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Rough Braking in process. Close match:

Chandrayaan 2 - Landing on Moon - LIVE from MOX-ISTRAC, Peenya, Bengaluru:

That is not the Pakistani flag. It's that of a student organisation called MSF. The tailor screwed up with the ratio of colours. That particular photograph makes it look even worse. Better angle:

Qaher is a good science project. Its role in battle is to be a flying duck. I'm one of those who thought it'll at least fly.

Malayali pork cuisine is good, but it's not popular even among Hindus. It's more of a Christian thing. The state unit of BJP organised a pork fest to spite the Muslims, which ended up in utter comedy as the party members didn't want to take a bite, as they're just not used to it. Although I'm...

September 3, 2019 The first de-orbiting maneuver for the Vikram Lander was performed successfully today (September 03, 2019) beginning at 0850 hrs IST as planned, using the onboard propulsion system. The duration of the maneuver was 4 seconds. The orbit of Vikram Lander is 104 km x 128 km...

Got to be AURA. Likely calling it Mk2 because of the smaller sized prototype, which is yet to fly btw.

Bandicoot is the Malayali robot he's mentioning. It's being adopted in southern cities as well as Gurugram and possibly Delhi, which earlier bought robots too large for the job. Costs ~35 lakhs.

September 2, 2019 Vikram Lander successfully separates from Orbiter The Vikram Lander successfully separated from Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter at 1315 Hrs IST today (September02, 2019). The Vikram Lander is currently located in an orbit of 119 km x 127 km. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter continues to orbit...

I called it long ago in one of these threads. MiG35 is the only thing that makes sense. I gave J10 some consideration because of the photo leaks, but it seems highly unlikely now.

Congress methodology has always been to ultimately remove Article 370. Due to certain developments, they chose a much slower approach in the recent decades, which was the complete integration of Kashmiris, before any formal action. BJP methodology is based on religious fault lines and thus have...

August 28, 2019 Third Lunar bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully today (August 28, 2019) beginning at 0904 hrs IST, using the onboard propulsion system. The duration of the maneuver was 1190 seconds. The orbit achieved is 179 km x 1412 km. All spacecraft...

August 26, 2019 Lunar surface imaged by Terrain Mapping Camera 2 (TMC-2) on 23rd August 2019 at an altitude of ~4375 km showing impact craters such as Jackson, Mitra, Mach and Korolev: Jackson is an impact crater located in the northern hemisphere of the far side of the Moon. It is a 71 km...

Hexa discontinuation rumour seems to be baseless, at least as of now. So this was clearly a BD Army choice and not a dumping. Meanwhile, Myanmar Army gets the Indian Army spec Safari:

Gokulam Kerala creates history, wins Durand Cup 24 Aug 2019, 07:18 PM IST Football Kolkata: Gokulam Kerala FC created history by winning the Durand Cup defeating city giants Mohun Bagan FC 2-1 on Saturday. It is their first national cup. The joy was extra sweet for Gokulam as it is after a...

August 22, 2019 Moon as viewed by Chandrayaan-2 LI4 Camera on 21 August 2019 19:03 UT:

August 21, 2019 Second Lunar bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully today (August 21, 2019) beginning at 1250 hrs IST as planned, using the onboard propulsion system. The duration of the maneuver was 1228 seconds. The orbit achieved is 118 km x 4412 km. All...

August 20, 2019 Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maneuver was completed successfully today (August 20, 2019). The duration of maneuver was 1738 seconds beginning from 0902 hrs IST. With this, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into a Lunar orbit. The orbit achieved is 114 km x 18072 km...

Tentative plan for future operation after Trans Lunar Injection are as follows: Subsequently, Vikram lander will separate from the orbiter on September 02, 2019. Two orbit maneuvers will be performed on the lander before the initiation of powered descent to make a soft landing on the lunar...