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South Korea aims to launch lunar communication orbiter in 2029, lander in
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
South Korea aims to launch a lunar communication orbiter in 2029, and a lunar lander in 2032 as part of its long-term space exploration road map, the head of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) said.
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ISRO-JAXA prepare for next phase of strategic space collaboration for luna
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Speaking with ANI on Tuesday, Saku Tsuneta, Vice Chair of the Committee in the National Space Policy Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, described it as one of the most important joint programmes undertaken by the two countries.
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NASA to open HLS contract for Bezos's Blue Origin over delays; Musk says "
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Acting Administrator Sean Duffy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday (local time) suggested the US space agency will be opening up its Human Landing System (HLS) production contracts for its Artemis lunar programme contract to additional companies, includi
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Japan postpones launch of rocket carrying lunar lander
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
An H2A rocket carrying a probe intended to attempt the country's first lunar landing was scheduled to be launched from Japan, on Monday morning, however, the mission was postponed due to unfavourable weather, NHK reported.
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"India's space journey began…": Congress leader Jairam Ramesh after ISRO l
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As India successfully placed the lunar lander, 'Vikram', on the moon's South Pole on Wednesday, becoming the first country to do so, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the country's space journey began on February 23, 1962 with the formation of INCOSPAR.
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Chandrayaan 3 mission: ISRO shares images from lunar lander inching closer
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
In a post shared on microblogging site X, two days before the landing, the ISRO shared images of the moon's far side area captured by the Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC).
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Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 year
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The spacecraft will look for natural resources, including water, and analyse the effects of space rays and electromagnetic emissions on the lunar surface. Luna 25, also called the Luna-Glob-Lander, will study the composition of the moon’s polar soil and the plasma and dust contained in the v
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Bezos firm wins Nasa bid to build astronaut lunar lander
Updated : 3 years ago IST
NASA said Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA's human landing system requirements for recurring astronaut expeditions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway, a space station where crew transfer in lunar orbit.
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Japanese Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A Japanese lunar lander, carrying a rover developed in the United Arab Emirates, attempted to find its footing on the moon's surface Tuesday, and potentially mark the world's first lunar landing for a commercially developed spacecraft, CNN reported. But flight controllers on the ground we
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NASA delays human moon landing until 2025, blames seven months lost in Lit
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 10 (ANI/Sputnik): NASA pushed back its schedule for landing astronauts on the Moon by a year to 2025, due in part to a protest over the single-source contract awarded to SpaceX to build a lunar lander, Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday.
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Bezos, Blue Origin lose appeal in fight against NASA Lunar Lander contract
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos has lost his legal battle against NASA over the contract to build lunar lander for the US Artemis Program, the US Federal Court of Claims ruled on Thursday according to a CNBC report.
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How intense and dangerous is cosmic radiation on the Moon?
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resol
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