06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... the orbiter, a further three devices are crammed on the lander and two are attached to the mission’s rover, Pragyan. Pragyan is a 6-wheeled robotic unit that runs on solar power. It can travel up to 500 metres and, ike...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... afar. "Only 5 per cent of the mission has been lost - Vikram the lander and Pragyan the rover - while the remaining 95 per cent - that is the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter - is orbiting the moon successfully," an official of ISRO...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... tomorrow (Thursday) who will deliver it's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon, a new study could give the mission a head start as researchers...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
... of past life on Mars is the primary goal of the recent NASA mission which sent the agency’s newest rover, Percy, to Jezero Crater in order to collect samples which scientists hope might contain traces of extinct microbial life...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... Scheller says. The research, which relied on data from telescopes, meteorites, satellite observations, and samples analysed by rovers on Mars, illustrates the importance of having multiple ways of probing the Red Planet, she says. “We conclude that...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
..., Lehao said. China is going from strength to strength in its ambitious space programme. Along with successfully landing a rover on Mars, the nation recently began work on its Tiangong space station. Chinese astronauts are currently working...
