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Budget airline AirAsia looks set to launch flights in China after an agreement was signed with a local partner. Chinese students capitalizing on 'Daigou' in Australia "Daigou", or "buying on behalf of", business is reportedly booming among Chinese students overseas, particularly in Australia. Chin...
India delays 1st Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2027 Private Athena moon lander enters lunar orbit ahead of March 6 touchdown try "Uploading of commands required for Mars orbit insertion has been completed," ISRO officials wrote on Wednesday (Sept. 17). India's MOM spacecraft is arriving at...
America is planning to land astronauts on the moon again — for the first time in more than 50 years — though NASA pushed the target date back to 2026 earlier this year. Article content U.S. efforts to use private-sector rockets to launch spacecraft have been repeatedly...
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic hoped to claim that honor last month with its Peregrine lander, but the mission was derailed by a ruptured propellant tank shortly after launch Jan. 9. Two earlier private moon ventures, one by Israel and the other by Japan, also ended in failure. Only the governme...
This is because that lander, called Nova-C, is set to take a more direct path to the moon. It plans to launch next month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Nova-C was built by Texas-based space company Intuitive Machines. The company also plans to send the lander to the moon for another...
"The third launch of Nuri is of great significance as it is the first attempt to launch a commercial-grade satellite and the first time a private company will jointly manufacture the homegrown Nuri rocket," Oh Tae-seok, the country's first vice science minister, was quoted as saying in the...
The next U.S. flight to the moon is a commercial mission funded by NASA. Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander could launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late this year. Another commercial lander, Astrobotic's Peregrine, will launch atop a new Vulcan rocket late this year or early next. ...
Just last month the lunar lander of another firm, Astrobotic Technology, suffered a propulsion system leak on its way to the moon shortly after being placed in orbit on Jan. 8 by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket making its debut flight. ...
Fuel leak may put at risk first private US lunar landing This image released by NASA shows Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander being encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket on Nov 21, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the ag...