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America’s first attempt to land on the Moon in 52 years came to a fiery end today as the privately owned and operated Peregrine 1 spacecraft entered the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up at 3:59 pm EST somewhere over the South Pacific.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Peregrine One Moon mission comes to fiery end over the Pacific
The crippled Peregrine Moon Lander is heading back toward Earth, and is expected to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on January 18, 2024. This is the conclusion of the latest tracking data from Astrobotic’s Mission Control Center.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Peregrine Moon lander to return and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
America’s plan to send its first lander to the Moon since 1972 has ended prematurely after the private owner and operator of the robotic Peregrine spacecraft announced that a massive propellant leak has made a lunar landing impossible.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading US Peregrine lunar landing mission scrubbed due to propellant leak
For those with an interest in the history of spaceflight, January 8th promised to be a pretty exciting day. Those who tuned into the early morning live stream were looking …read more Continue reading Vulcan Nails First Flight, but Peregrine Falls Short
America’s privately owned and operated Peregrine lunar landing mission may be in peril due to a malfunction. An anomaly in the lander’s propulsion system discovered shortly after this morning’s launch may require the planned February landing to be scru… Continue reading America’s Peregrine lunar lander mission in jeopardy from fuel loss
It was second time lucky for Japan as it successfully launched its first lunar lander on September 6 at 23:42 GMT atop a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center 25 miles (40 km) south of Kyushu.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Successful liftoff for Japan’s first lunar landing mission
India is furthering its bid to become a major spacefaring power with the launch of its first mission to the Sun, just as it winds down its first successful robotic Moon landing. On September 2, 2003, the Aditya-L1 solar probe lifted off atop the (PSLV-… Continue reading India launches its first solar mission as lunar rover goes to sleep
The fate of Russia’s failed Luna 25 Moon landing mission has been confirmed after NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found a new impact crater at the estimated position of the lander’s crash shortly before its attempted landing.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading NASA orbiter finds crash site of Russia’s Luna 25 Moon lander
India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission has hit the ground running with the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover sending back their first images and instrument data while the rover makes a slow-motion swerve around a crater.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, S… Continue reading Chandrayaan-3 sends back first pictures and data from the Moon
India joined one of the solar system’s most exclusive clubs today as it successfully landed its first probe, Chandrayaan-3, on the Moon. On August 23, 2023, at 12:32 GMT, the robotic spacecraft touched down near the lunar south pole at 69.37°S 32.35°E,… Continue reading India’s Chandrayaan-3 makes historic landing near Moon’s south pole