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India failed in its attempt to be the 4th country to make a soft landing on the the moon when its lander crashed on the lunar surface
"We have found the location of Lander Vikram on the lunar surface and the Orbiter has clicked a the…
Sahar Esfandiari
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The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites
Astrobotic's lander set off last week with hope of becoming the first US spacecraft to make it to t…
Marianne Guenot
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Chandrayaan-3 gets closer to the Moon's surface: ISRO
"Even closer to the moon's surface. Chandrayaan-3's orbit is reduced to 174 km x 1437 km followi…
PTI
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India lost contact with its moon lander, and an astronomer thinks the spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface
"Those screens reported the spacecraft was 1.09 kilometers [0.6 miles] above the surface, traveling…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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India's moon lander separates from main Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft
Indian space agency on Thursday afternoon successfully detached the moon lander from the main space…
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NASA's Mars lander is just days from reaching the red planet - here's how to watch the InSight landing live
InSight's design, including its heat shield and parachute, are very similar to that of NASA's Phoen…
Peter Kotecki
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Chandrayaan-3 undergoes last Moon-bound maneouvre, prepares for propulsion and lander module seperation
India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Wednesday successfully underwent…
PTI
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon lander because somebody forgot to flip a switch before launch
Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon landing after someone forgot to flip a switch before launch…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chandrayaan 2 definitely reached the Moon but might have 'hard' news in store
All isn't lost for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The lunar lander, Vikram, which w…
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India’s lunar lander finally breaks away from Chandrayaan 2 and starts its descent towards the Moon
India's lunar mission was off to a rocky start but now it's approaching its moment of truth. Ch…
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Up, close & personal images of the moon from Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander is about to undergo a crucial deboosting manoeuvre and descend to a s…
ANI
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Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 years
The spacecraft will look for natural resources, including water, and analyse the effects of space r…
ANI
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet - Here's The Incredibly Tricky Process To Make It Happen
Although Philae is not the first probe to make contact with a comet, it is the first probe to land …
Jessica Orwig
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Tomorrow, Humans Will Land A Probe On A Comet - Here's The Incredibly Tricky '7 Hours Of Terror' That Takes
Although Philae is not the first probe to make contact with a comet, it is the first probe to land …
Jessica Orwig
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This is going to be a mission that's one of the best that NASA has ever done
"Anything else we can add to the flyby mission, whether it's a lander or any kind of probe, will ma…
Jessica Orwig
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China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, delivering a water-hunting rover to the red planet
The Zhurong rover is almost ready to start scanning Mars' volcanic-rock fields for hidden water ice…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA scientists freak out after landing a probe on Mars for the first time in 6 years
Dozens of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California laughed, hugged each other…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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Japanese company ispace fears its probe crashed into the moon, failing to snag the first private lunar landing
The ispace mission was carrying a rover for the UAE and a robot for Japan's space agency. No privat…