The most recent India moon landing mission was completed on August 23, 2023. This monumental space mission led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) became the first to land on the lunar South Pole.
India’s space rocket was launched on the 14th of July from India’s east coast. 41 days later the spacecraft made a soft landing on the moon’s southern region for the first time ever. Wednesday 23 August 2023 15:48, UK This is a modal window. ...
The successful landing means India joins an elite club of countries to reach the Moon after the former Soviet Union, the US and China. It comes just days afterRussia’s Luna-25 craft crash-landedbefore it could reach the Moon’s south pole, in a blow to the prestige of the Roscosmos ...
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India's first attempt of landing on the Moon surface was unsuccessful on Sept. 7, when the Lander "Vikram" of the second Moon Mission - 'Chandrayaan-2' lost contact when it was nearly two kilometers away from making a soft landing on the Lunar surface. ...
"We have achieved soft landing on the moon! India is on the moon!" ISRO chairman Sreedhara Somanath announced after the landing. "This success belongs to all of humanity and it will help moon missions by other countries in the future," India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a ...
Moon landing - as it happened Why is India's moon landing important? Leaders in space like the USA, Europe and Japan are now looking to the private sector to explore and commercialise space. Sticking a moon landing is about the best pitch India's high-tech sector could ha...
If India's second moon mission is successful, the country would join the U.S., China and the former Soviet Union as the only nations to perform a soft landing on the lunar surface. Israel's attempt to claim a spot on the list in April resulted in a crash landing. T...
would be a useful resource as NASA lays the groundwork for a permanent human presence on the Moon. Of course, a lot needs to happen before that. The Artemis Program is hugely expensive, and vital technologies like spacesuits and theSpaceX Starship HLSlanding craft have yet to be completed....
India's first attempt of landing on the Moon surface was unsuccessful on Sept. 7, when the Lander "Vikram" of the second Moon Mission - 'Chandrayaan-2' lost contact when it was nearly two kilometers away from making a soft landing on the Lunar surface. ...