Science This Week | Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft enters lunar orbit, scientists find heaviest animal that may have ever lived and more

This week has seen a lot of new findings and discoveries in the field of science. From NASA restoring contact with Voyager 2 to finding out more about the abilities of a newly-found superconductor material, find this week’s top science-related news here.

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft enters lunar orbit

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on August 5 completed the Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) to successfully put the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the moon’s orbit. The LOI manoeuvre was performed from ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru. LOI manoeuvre commenced at 7 p.m. ISRO also shared a message from the satellite to its centres, which read, ”Mission Operations Complex, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network, this is Chandrayaan-3. I am feeling lunar gravity.”