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First Moon Photo By Chandrayaan-2 Shows Apollo Crater, Mare Orientale Basin

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The image captured by Chandrayaan 2 shows two significant Moon landmarks, the Apollo crater and the Mare Orientale basin.

First Moon Photo By Chandrayaan-2 Shows Apollo Crater, Mare Orientale Basin

NEW DELHI: The first image of the Moon captured by Chandrayaan 2, India's ambitious Rs. 1,000-crore moon mission, was tweeted by space agency ISRO on Thursday. The image of the moon, ISRO says, was captured at a height of about 2,650 km from the moon surface and was taken a day earlier.

The image shows two significant landmarks on the moon, the Apollo crater and the Mare Orientale basin.

The Apollo, a 538 km-wide crater named after NASA's Apollo moon missions, is located on the moon's southern hemisphere. According to NASA, many smaller craters located inside the Apollo, are named after dead NASA astronauts and officials. Seven such craters take their names after the crew of NASA's Colombia.

The Mare Orientale, on the other hand, is said to be over 3 billion years old and about 950 km wide. Shaped like a bullseye, it was formed after an impact from an asteroid-shaped object. A very significant landmark on the moon, the Mare Orientale is difficult to look at from the earth, according to NASA.

Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height of about 2650 km from Lunar surface on August 21, 2019.

Mare Orientale basin and Apollo craters are identified in the picture.#ISRO pic.twitter.com/ZEoLnSlATQ
— ISRO (@isro) August 22, 2019

The Chandrayaan 2, on its journey to the moon, successfully pulled off a critical manoeuvre yesterday, taking it closer to the moon. Said to be one of the trickiest in the mission, the 20-minute manoeuvre, if unsuccessful, would have resulted in the mission bouncing off into deep space.

The next significant test for the Chandrayaan 2 is scheduled for September 7, which will have the mission landing on the moon's south pole.

If successful, India will lay claim to being the fourth nation to soft land a rover on the lunar surface after Russia, US and China. Israel had earlier attempted to do the same with their Beresheet spacecraft, but was unsuccessful, after it crash landed on the moon earlier this year.

The process of landing Chandrayaan 2 on the moon is very complex since it blasted off at a velocity of 39,240 kilometres per hour, which is almost 30 times the speed at which sound travels through air.

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Airtel declares broadband war on Jio

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The Mittal-led telco will bundle customised Android-based smart set top box for fast broadband speed.

KOLKATA: Bharti Airtel is pulling out all stops to take on Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm’s home broadband offerings. Come September, the Sunil Mittal-led telco will bundle a customised Android-based smart set top box (STB) to deliver converged digital entertainment and fast broadband services, aimed at matching JioFiber’s upcoming offerings.

Airtel’s Android STB is likely to come bundled with a host of new-look, integrated tariff packs that will target midto-top end post-paid mobile users, home broadband and direct-to-home (DTH) digital TV customers, treating them as unified home users of the company’s converged telecom services, two people with direct knowledge said.

Airtel may also selectively bundle a free HD/LED television along with the set top box on super-premium tariff packs to specifically counter Jio-Fiber’s ‘Welcome Offer’ to home broadband customers, they added.

Bharti Airtel, it is learnt, has internally piloted an integrated billing system in Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, and is ready to operationalise it nationally from next month.

“Airtel has sizeable customer numbers across its post-paid mobile, home broadband and DTH platforms…The objective is to use hardware resources and leverage existing customer relationships across the three lines of business to take an integrated view of the consumer to grow the company’s base of users opting for higher revenue-generating converged telecom services,” one of the persons cited told ET.

Customers opting for Airtel’s upcoming suite of converged entertainment-cumbroadband services will access premium OTT content, streaming applications, HD television channels, virtual reality apps to interactive gaming services, in addition to high-speed broadband with potential base speeds of 100 Mbps on select plans. Pricing and bundling strategies would be “calibrated in line with competitive intensity,” post-Jio’s home broadband services launch, another person said.

At press time, ET’s queries to Airtel went unanswered.

Last week, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani had said telecom arm Reliance Jio would launch home broadband services from September 5, with plans ranging between Rs 700 and Rs 10,000 a month. Experts have said Jio’s promise of a free high-definition TV and a set top box for people opting for its annual broadband plans as part of a ‘Welcome Offer’ could unleash another wave of disruption in the telecom and DTH markets.

People aware of developments said Airtel could roll out its converged entertainment-cum-broadband tariff packs early next month around the time of the JioFiber launch.

Earlier this month, Airtel’s chief executive Gopal Vittal said on an earnings call that the company’s immediate game plan is to take steps to make it attractive for customers to upgrade to higher, value-rich tariff plans that would help sustain average revenue per user (ARPU) growth momentum. Airtel’s India mobile services business has lately shown strong revival signals, underlined by growth in ARPU.

Goldman Sachs sees low possibility of churn for Airtel in the home broadband space, post-Jio’s big-ticket announcements as the Sunil Mittalled telco has been upgrading customers to higher bandwidth offerings.

Airtel’s home services ARPU grew 1.2% sequentially to Rs 825 in the quarter ended June, although its performance on this metric was weaker in the digital TV services space. Its digital TV services ARPU fell nearly 33% sequentially to Rs 157 in the fiscal first quarter.

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