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The story so far: In September 2025, NASA’s four-member Artemis crew is scheduled fly around the moon in preparation for the space agency’s mission to land on the moon again. To boost such scientific missions, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on April 2, directed its space agency, the National Aeronautics…
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Intuitive Machines said the next day that human error was to blame for the navigational issue. Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, neared the end of its fifth day on the lunar surface still operational, but with its battery in its final hours before the vehicle is expected to…
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Odysseus has sent back its first images from farthest south any vessel has ever landed on Moon Washington: An American lunar lander that tipped over during touchdown has sent back its first images from the farthest south any vessel has ever landed on the Moon. The uncrewed Odysseus, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, returned the…
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ISRO has hit recent highs, becoming the first nation to land a rover on the moon’s south pole. Bengaluru: When the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream – a record for the site. The landing was a win…
Chandrayaan-1 played a crucial role in the discovery of water molecules on the Moon New Delhi: Scientists analysing the remote sensing data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission have found that high energy electrons from the Earth may be forming water on the Moon. The team led by researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) at…
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The story so far: Scripting history, the Chandrayaan-3 lander landed in the south polar region of the moon on August 23 at 6:03 pm IST, making India the first country to successfully soft-land in that area. The Vikram lander along with the Pragyan rover have since completed a small suite of surface tests. China’s Yutu-2…
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Watch | Indians are buying land on the moon… but can one ‘own’ lunar land? India’s successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon is encouraging some of its people to also grab a slice of it, literally. Now, several middle-class Indians, who may have never owned land on earth, are looking to buy…
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Last month, Meena Bishnoi bought an acre on the Moon. It wasn’t the thrill of buying land in space that drove her though; the nursing officer at AIIMS Jodhpur had something more significant in mind. In early August, the 30-year-old was discussing Chandrayaan-3’s prospective landing with a friend in Ireland, when the friend suggested gifting…
Pragyan rover and Vikram lander were carried to the moon by the Chandrayaan-3 module. New Delhi: India’s space agency has shared a video of the Pragyan rover being rotated on the Moon’s surface – remotely from the command centre in Bengaluru – in search of a route that avoids craters and rocks on the lunar…
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Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue. It’s dubbed a supermoon because it’s closer to Earth than…
