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ISRO's unmanned test flight for its first human spaceflight mission'Gaganyaan' lifted off from Sriharikota, the first landmark in India's ambitious space mission. Saturday's rocket tested the emergency escape system of its crew module, which separated from the thruster and made a soft sea landing about 10 minutes after the launch. The mission is to test the efficiancy of the vehicle's crew escape system, which will used for astronauts.

In this event 'Over the Moon with Team Chandrayaan 3'  held in campus on Sunday, top scientists and engineers from ISRO interacted with students from IIT Madras and various government schools and city college students. During the occasion many scientists including Dr. S.Unnikrishnan Nair who completed PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), ISRO.

N Valarmathi, the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist and the iconic voice behind the agency's rocket countdown launches, passed away at the age of 64 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. According to reports, she suffered a heart-attack on September 3. Chandrayaan-3 was her final countdown announcement in July. Besides Chandrayan 3, she was project director of RISAT-1, India's first indigenously-developed Radar Imaging Satellite. 

After the success of its lunar landing programme - Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now set to make history with the launch of its new mission to study the Sun. Aditya-L1 Solar Mission, is India’s first mission to explore the Sun. ISRO said the launch rehearsal and the rocket’s internal checks were completed. The spacecraft  would be launched by PSLV-C57 rocket, to study the Sun.

PM Modi met with the ISRO scientists and gave a speech after the successful Chandrayaan-3 Mission, as he missed it due to his South Africa-Greece. On August 26, he said, "The spot on the Moon where Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram touched down will be known as 'Shiv Shakti Point', Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today while addressing the scientists of ISRO in Bengaluru.