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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
India has become the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole. It launched Chandrayaan-3 in mid-July, with the spacecraft entering the moon’s orbit on Aug. 5. Earlier this week, Russia crashed its Luna-25 rocket in the same lunar reg… Continue reading India Becomes the First Country To Land Spacecraft on Moon’s South Pole
LiveScience brings an update on China’s Chang’e-4 — the first spacecraft to ever land on the far side of the moon.
Its Lunar Penetrating Radar has now mapped the lunar subsurface “in finer detail than ever before” by bouncing radio signals deep… Continue reading For the First Time, China’s Lunar Rover Maps 1,000 Feet Below the Moon’s Dark Side
Russia’s ambitions for its first Moon landing mission in 47 years have come to an abrupt end after the Luna 25 lander crashed into the lunar surface. According to Roscosmos, the robotic probe impacted on August 19 at 2:57 pm Moscow time after a malfunc… Continue reading Crash into the Moon ends Russia’s Luna 25 mission
“Russia’s first lunar mission in decades has ended in failure with its Luna 25 spacecraft crashing into the moon’s surface,” reports CNN:
The incident, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions, happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was in… Continue reading Russia’s First Lunar Mission in Decades Crashes Into the Moon
Russia has reentered the 21st century race for the Moon with the launch of its first lunar mission in 47 years. Luna 25 lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on August 10, 2023, 23:10 GMT…. Continue reading Russia launches first Moon mission after 47-year hiatus
Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. From a report: The uncrewed spacecraft lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 took… Continue reading Russia’s Luna 25 Mission Launches To the Moon
Russia hopes to launch its first successful lunar landing mission for nearly 50 years, with a long-delayed takeoff from the far east of the country scheduled for early on Friday morning that the Kremlin aims to tout as a new achievement in space explor… Continue reading Russia Hopes For Its First Successful Lunar Landing Mission in Nearly 50 Years
The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the …read more Continue reading Humanity’s Return to the Moon and the Prospect of South Pole Moon Bases
Long-time Slashdot reader William Robinson shares a report from the BBC: India’s space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show craters on lunar surfa… Continue reading Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon Mission Sends New Photos of Lunar Surface