As of January 2022, 18 states are parties to the Moon treaty.

This chart shows the countries that are signatories/parties to the 1979 Moon Treaty in August 2023.

🌗 The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, better known as the Moon Treaty or Moon Agreement, is a multilateral treaty that turns jurisdiction of all celestial bodies (including the orbits around such bodies) over to the participant countries.

🌗 Thus, all activities would conform to international law, including the United Nations Charter.

#India #Space

ISRO's second Spaceport in Tamil Nadu...🚀

🔸Central Govt has given final approval for setting up India’s 2nd spaceport in Kulasekarapattinam
🔸 Nearly 99% of the 2,300 acres of land has been acquired & handed over to ISRO
🔸Smaller rocket launches will be conducted from here & will take 2 yrs to complete the project
🔸TN Govt is also setting up a space industrial & propellant park near the facility

#ISRO

PM Modi names #Chandrayaan3 touchdown point as 'ShivShakti'

ACME Group has signed a land agreement with Tata Steel Special Economic Zone for its green #hydrogen and green ammonia project at the Gopalpur Industrial Park in Odisha. It plans to set up a 1.3 MTPA green ammonia production facility.

#MakeinIndia
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▶️The point on the moon where Chandrayaan-2 has left its footprints will now be called the 'Tiranga🇮🇳 Point' and this Tiranga point will teach us that no failure is final. If there is strong willpower, then success is bound to happen.

▶️August 23rd to be celebrated as 'National Space Day.' The day India landed successful on the Moon.

- PM Modi

We all know how IITs have contributed to the Chandrayaan-3 mission. But here's a story of how a lesser known local college in Salem district of Tamil Nadu did the same.

Students and researchers of Sona College of Technology developed the simplex permanent magnet stepper motor for the actuator assembly of LVM-3 (that launched Chandrayan-3) that controlled the rocket engine’s liquid fuel and oxidizer mixture ratio.

#ISRO #Space #Research #CH3
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Jharkhand government inked a pact with TCPL GES to set up Rs 350-crore facility at Jamshedpur.

The capacity in the unit will be over 4,000 #hydrogen IC engine/fuel agnostic engines and more than 10,000 battery system.

#MakeInIndia #Batteries #Energy #automobile
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Mega-container terminal at Tuna-Tekra near Kandla, in Gujarat. Estimated to cost Rs 4,243.64 crore.

Once complete, the terminal will have annual capacity to handle 2.19 million container units (TEUs)

#Infra #Trade
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After BrahMos Supersonic Missiles, Philippines has displayed a keen interest in military hardware India has to offer – including Advanced Light Helicopter Mk II and the indigenously built warships : Report

#Manufacturing #Defence

#Meme of the day 🛰️🌕🇮🇳

Ghaziabad RapidX Station, Uttar Pradesh #Infra

CRPF inducts TATA+DRDO built WhAP armoured vehicle in South Kashmir. #Defence #aatmanirbharbharat

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is weighing a 🇨🇳Chinese bid to build a nuclear-power plant in the kingdom.

#Geopolitics

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Gaganyaan mission to have the first inflight abort test of the escape system using a test vehicle in October,2023 says Dr. Jitendra Singh

#Gaganyaan #ISRO

🇮🇳🤝🇬🇷Greece And India Enter Strategic Partnership – Cooperation In Security And Defence Industry #ForeignAffairs #Geopolitics

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/08/26/greece-india-stategic-partnership/

Historic!

The India men's 4x400 Relay team qualified for the final with an Asian record time of 2:59.05, finishing second behind the United States of America in the semifinal heats. #Sports

Just in : Dubai’s DP_World 🇦🇪 signs a concession agreement with the Deendayal Port Authority 🇮🇳 to develop, operate and maintain a new 2.19 million TEU per annum mega-container terminal at Kandla in Gujarat on India’s western coast, costing around $510 million. #Infra

Adani Ports is looking to acquire Kavala, Volos & Alexandroupoli #ports in Greece🇬🇷
#Geopolitics #Trade

#BRICS #Geopolitics #NWO

🇮🇳 Piyush Goyal quizzes Chinese trade minister Showen on dumping of goods.

This happened in B-20 Summit:

Goyal asked Chinese Vice Trade Minister, Wang Shouwen, whether China regretted that India did not join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). 

🇨🇳 Shouwen: The China-India trade relationship is growing very fast. Last year, our bilateral trade reached $130 billion. If there had been an FTA (free trade agreement), either bilaterally or in RCEP context, the trade potential would be huge.

🇮🇳 Goyal: "We are already concerned about bilateral trade, even though $130 billion is largely skewed in favour of China. Indian industry feels, if we had entered into RCEP, our trade deficit would also have risen further along with the increase in trade. We just can’t seem to understand the pricing. The cost at which you are supplying goods is a matter all ministers would like to know. How can you supply goods at less than the raw material cost?"

Shouwen avoided giving a direct reply.

#Trade #Economy #India

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Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Here are the first observations from the ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander.

ChaSTE (Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment) measures the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the pole, to understand the thermal behaviour of the moon's surface. It has a temperature probe equipped with a controlled penetration mechanism capable of reaching a depth of 10 cm beneath the surface. The probe is fitted with 10 individual temperature sensors.

The presented graph illustrates the temperature variations of the lunar surface/near-surface at various depths, as recorded during the probe's penetration. This is the first such profile for the lunar south pole. Detailed observations are underway.

#CH3 #Moon