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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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India's and Israel's moon-landing attempts both failed during descent - here's why the '15 minutes of terror' are so difficult
The mission's main spacecraft, Chandrayaan-2, has since spotted the Vikram lander's hapless hardwar…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Here's why Chandrayaan 2's soft landing on the Moon will be the '15 most terrifying minutes' for ISRO
But, it won’t be easy. The craters may hold the key to a lot of unanswered questions a…
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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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Chandrayaan 2: India reveals the mystery behind Vikram lander but its location is still unknown
“Vikram lander hard-landed as reduction in velocity during its descent did not match with the de…
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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 'inspired' by Chandrayaan 2 as it plans to return to the Moon after 7 years
The US’ apex space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), tweeted that t…
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NASA discovered a new crater on the moon as wide as a 3-story building, and it's probably Russia's Luna-25 gravesite
It was Russia's first mission to the moon in decades. Had Luna-25 successfully landed, it would've …
Sonam Sheth
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NASA photographed the crash site of Israel's failed moon lander, and it's not pretty
"Despite the mishap, it is important to remember that Beresheet was the first spacecraft developed …
Dave Mosher
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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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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Chandrayaan 2 loses contact with the lander in the final seconds of the descent to Moon's surface
India was almost the first nation to land near Moon’s South Pole. But, it seems like the lander f…
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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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Meet the 33-year-old Chennai techie who spotted Vikram Lander on Moon’s surface and alerted NASA
“I didn’t use any tools, only used my laptop to scan images,” said Subramanian who claimed to …