Moon Rovers India on the moon! Chandrayaan-3 becomes 1st probe to land near lunar south pole News By Sharmila Kuthunur published August 23, 2023 India just became the fourth nation to stick a lunar landing. Comments (3) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an af...
From the early days of human space activity in the 1960s, missions to the Moon have attracted significant global attention. India’s recent success in landing theChandrayaan-3spacecraft on the Moon was technically demanding and occurred in a previouslyunexplored part of the Moon. ...
Fresh off its first-ever successful robotic moon landing, India aims to put an astronaut on the lunar surface by 2040 and build an Earth-orbiting space station by 2035, the nation's government said on Tuesday (Oct. 17). On Aug. 23, India became just the fourth nation ever to soft-land...
India becomes the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon's South Pole. Russian authorities say Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash. More than 1,000 people are still missing following catastrophic wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui....
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.
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"Landing on the south pole (of the moon) would actually allow India to explore if there is water ice on the moon. And this is very important for cumulative data and science on the geology of the moon," said Carla Filotico, a ...
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft launched last month and touched down on the lunar surface around 8:34 a.m. ET. The feat makes India the fourth country to land on the moon, and the first to land on one of the moon's lunar poles. Previously, Russia (then the Soviet Union), the U.S....
NEW DELHI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- India will become the first country to land a rover on the Moon's the south pole if the country's space agency "Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)" successfully achieves the feat during the country's second Moon mission "Chandrayaan-2" later this year...
The rover, which can travel over 1,600 feet, will stay on the moon for two weeks – the equivalent of one lunar day. The country's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, orbited around the moon in 2008 but did not touch down. India is a growing power in space. It...