30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
.... Cancellation of the only NASA lunar surface mission currently under development to obtain strategic data from the Moon’s polar regions is not the way to signal that intention. As stated above, RP would be a pathfinder for NASA’s contribution...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon. A soft landing on another planetary body would have made India... - that is the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter - is orbiting the moon successfully," an official of ISRO told news agency IANS. The ...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
... in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission for more than 40 years. The spacecraft is performing ...ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon and carry out automatic sampling. The orbiter-returner ...
14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... the Arab world. The ‘Rashid’ rover will be transported to the Moon on ispace’s lunar lander during the company’s ‘Mission 1’ in 2022 ...the Emirates Lunar Mission’s ‘Rashid’ rover to the Moon, provide wired communication and power during the cruise ...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space ...communications station, capable of tracking future missions to the Moon and beyond. At present, if you are planning on ...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
The first Apollo moonwalk in July 1969 was watched by millions of people all over the world and became a great moment in humankind’s history. Five more successful landing missions followed Apollo 11 and each successive soacecraft touched down ...
