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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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India set to celebrate first National Space Day on August 23
India is set to celebrate it's first National Space Day on August 23, 2024.
ANI
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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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ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 moon mission continues to uncover lunar treasures at Shiv Shakti point
ISRO has reported that the Pragyan rover has observed small rock fragments scattered around the rim…
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India's moon lander detected movement near the lunar south pole. It could be the first signs of a moonquake in nearly 50 years.
India is the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Shortly after touchdown, the lander d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jessica O…
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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
Russia hasn't launched a lunar mission since 1976. It hopes to be the first to carry out a soft lan…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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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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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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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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NASA scientist says there could be microbial life hiding in dark craters on the moon's south pole
Extreme microbes on Earth have demonstrated they can survive harsh conditions similar to the lunar …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA is sending a water-hunting lunar rover to a shadowy crater on the moon's south pole
NASA's VIPER rover will descend into permanently shadowed craters on the moon's south pole, where t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chandrayaan-3 most significant milestone for planetary exploration: former ISRO chief
The scheduled timing for the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon's south pole on August 23, 2…
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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The race to the moon is heating up as lunar resources could top $1 quadrillion in value
The head of Russia's space agency said "the race for the development of the natural resources of th…
Filip De Mott
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NASA is paying a company $1 - spread over 3 installments - to collect rocks from the moon's south pole
Colorado start-up Lunar Outpost was already planning to collect material from the room - so giving …
Grace Dean
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Chandrayaan 2 enters Moon’s orbit — play-by-play of how it happened
The entire maneuver took approximately 28 minutes to complete and the spacecraft is now starti…
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China’s lunar rover does what India’s Chandrayaan 2 is hoping to do on the Moon’s South Pole
The Chinese space agency describes it as a 'gel with mysterious lustre'. Yutu 2 was actuall…
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NASA is sending a new moon rover to sample water ice on the lunar south pole
"It's incredibly exciting to have a rover going to the new and unique environment of the South Pole…