20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... could see each country contributing a payload to the others up and coming lunar missions, namely the Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft and Chang’e-7 polar landing mission respectively. The agreement would also see both space-faring...
18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
... next decade such as a return to the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 and the start of its human spaceflight programme in an orbital spacecraft called Gaganyaan. Although companies like Skyroot Aerospace, Solar Industries India, L&T and Godrej Space are...
27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... as such Russia should focus on completing its own orbital station instead, says Flight Director of the Russian Segment...the program” and focus on the implementation of the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), which is currently being developed at ...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... or permafrost. Past studies by scientists using SHARAD, which stands for SHAllow RADar, onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have suggested that a volume of water ice around 1.2 times the volume of Lake Superior in the US could be present...