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ISRO’s ambitious lineup of missions include Chandrayaan-4, Chandrayaan-5 and Gaganyaan — likely within the end of this decade!
India is launching ambitious space missions. Chandrayaan-4 will collect lunar samples. Chandrayaan-…
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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space before return as NASA mulls extending mission duration
Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thrus…
ANI
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NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly …
Aditi Bharade
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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India wants to fly its own astronauts to the moon, after becoming the first nation to land near the lunar south pole
India's prime minister confirmed plans to send people to the moon as the nation celebrated the hist…
Marianne Guenot
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Indian-origin robotics engineer to head NASA's new Moon to Mars office
Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NA…
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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works
Japan's SLIM probe lost a thruster and landed upside-down on the moon, but it still woke up and sta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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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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The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company h…
Marianne Guenot
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From Elon Musk's giant Starship rocket to India's spectacular moon landing, 2023 was an epic year in space
It was a busy year for the space industry, filled with successful launches, ambitious missions, and…
Marianne Guenot
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India's historic moon lander and adorable sidekick rover may be dead for good
India was the first to land near the lunar south pole, but it was always unlikely that its spacecra…
Sonam Sheth,Jenny McGrath
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The first US moon lander in more than 50 years launched with human remains on board, paving the way for space burials
A US mission hasn't landed on the moon since the Apollo in 1972. Peregrine may become the first in…
Marianne Guenot
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The next country to land humans on the moon in the next 10 years 'sets a precedent' for who decides the rules there: US officials
The US and China are racing to be the first to put a man on the moon in the 21st Century, but NASA …
Matthew Loh
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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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India's moon lander and rover didn't wake up despite high hopes
It was hoped India's moon lander and rover, Vikram and Pragyan, would awaken on September 22. They …
Sonam Sheth
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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's plan to put humans back on the Moon will cost $28 billion
NASA has shared an update on its Artemis programme, including the latest plans to land the first wo…
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Exclusive: Passionate Naveen Jain aimed for the moon and got it, literally!
Jain is doing what entrepreneurs don’t even dare to think of. He is venturing into outer space thro…