Private US spacecraft topples to its side during lunar landing, some antennas covered up, the company saysA private U.S. lunar lander, Odysseus, tipped over during touchdown near the moon's south pole, ending up on its side and hampering communi...
24 Feb, 2024, 11.56 PM IST
Exploring the history of lunar landings, as U.S. company achieves first private moon landingA U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, has successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon, becoming the first private entity to do so. This achi...
24 Feb, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
US heads back to the Moon -- with a commercial spaceshipIntuitive Machines, a Houston-based company, attempts to land its hexagon-shaped robot Odysseus on the lunar south pole using NASA-funded c...
22 Feb, 2024, 08.14 AM IST
Private US moon lander launched half century after last Apollo lunar missionIntuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, Odysseus, launched to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in 50 years. China aims for crewed lunar la...
15 Feb, 2024, 03.55 PM IST
Why space agencies are racing to conquer the moon?Embark on a celestial journey as global space agencies, including India, rekindle lunar exploration. The Moon, teeming with vital resources...
28 Jan, 2024, 06.11 PM IST
Japan hopes to join an elite club by landing on the moon: A closer lookJapan hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in ...
19 Jan, 2024, 05.42 PM IST
More delays for NASA's moon missions, with crewed landing delayed till 2026The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around the moon late this year, but pushed the flight to September 2025. The first hum...
10 Jan, 2024, 10.33 AM IST
First US lunar lander in more than 50 years launched but develops problem on way to moonThe Pittsburgh company's lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Flori...
09 Jan, 2024, 10.24 AM IST
After Chandrayaan 3, India set to leave its footprint again on moon thanks to world’s 2nd pvt lunar missionThe Peregrine lander, carrying over 80,000 messages from children worldwide, is scheduled to lift off on Monday from Cape Canaveral Air For...
09 Jan, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
Meet the India-origin engineer leading America's first moon landing mission in 50 yearsNASA has launched five payloads to the Moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, marking the inaugural mission under NASA's CLPS initiativ...
09 Jan, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
A rocket alternative to SpaceX inches towards its first launchThe first Vulcan was supposed to launch in May, but a propellant tank cracked during testing in March. Hydrogen leaking from the tank ignit...
14 Jul, 2023, 03.26 PM IST
Boeing, Lockheed Martin rocket Vulcan inches toward its first launchThe first Vulcan was supposed to launch in May, but a propellant tank cracked during testing in March. Hydrogen leaking from the tank ignit...
14 Jul, 2023, 11.02 AM IST
Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific firstThe so-called nano robots developed by researchers at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) will work together like a swarm of bee...
25 Feb, 2022, 11.29 PM IST
2022 is full of first steps to the moon2022 is the year for those initial steps toward the moon. Two new rockets central to NASA’s lunar plans will launch to space for the first ...
03 Jan, 2022, 06.48 AM IST
Where NASA will send its first robotic Moon rover to search for iceVIPER will land near the moon’s south pole, at the western edge of the 45-mile-wide Nobile crater, which formed when something hit the moon.
21 Sep, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
- NASA reveals plans for future missions to Moon
Washington, March 9 (IANS) The first of two mid-size commercial missions to the Moon for NASA could come as early as 2022, said the US spac...
09 Mar, 2018, 05.02 PM IST
Barack Obama honours three Indian-American startup entrepreneurs for path-breaking start-upsThe three innovators honoured by Obama are Privahini Bradoo from San Francisco, Ann Marie Sastry from Michigan and Suma Reddy from New York.
05 Aug, 2015, 03.39 PM IST