Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared 2023 National Space Day in India to honour the mission’s momentous accomplishment. On August 23, 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made history by successfully landing a spacecraft near the lunar south pole, making India the fourth nation to land on the moon. This achievement highlighted India’s expanding capabilities …
ThePrint brings 10 fun facts you may not know about the Moon landing: The Moon has a smell Upon landing, Armstrong described out loud the surface of the Moon and the texture of the soil (regolith), and as he bounced around on the Moon, the sticky powdery regolith stuck to both astronauts’ suits, causing them to later …
Beijing: China’s Chang’e-6 probe on Tuesday lifted off from the far side of the Moon for its journey back to Earth carrying the first rock samples ever collected from the rarely explored terrain, in an ambitious mission that underscored the country’s rise as a major space power. The ascender has entered a pre-set orbit around …
The first two missions, ROLSES and LuSEE-Night, showcase the immense potential of lunar radio astronomy. ROLSES will not only help understand the lunar environment better but also offer insights into protecting astronauts from harmful radiation. LuSEE-Night, aiming to study the cosmic “dark ages,” will push the boundaries of our knowledge about the universe’s origin and …
A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft. The company’s Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 …
It was a great moment for Japan as the country completed its first successful soft-landing as the “moon sniper” SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon. But good news soon turned into bad news, before it turned into good news again. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) made a precision landing on the lunar surface …
Elon Musk-led SpaceX once again showed that it is keen to launch its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, sometime this month. The company shared a photo of the Starbase “Megabay,” where four Super Heavy boosters seem to be ready for launch. The post on Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, shows images taken from the …
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Webb telescope captures ‘stunning’ images of 19 spiral galaxies A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well …
News Technology Science Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ follows Chandrayaan-3 to make historic landing but suffers major issue Japan’s “moon sniper” SLIM mission landed successfully on the Moon making the country only the fifth to do so. But now, the lander’s solar cells do not seem to be working, putting the mission in jeopardy. “SLIM is now …
NASA had initially planned for the Artemis 3 mission to land humans on the Moon in 2025, around 52 years after the last Apollo mission landed astronauts in 1952. But now, the United States Government Accountability Office says the space agency will not be able to do that until 2027 at the earliest. But why …