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
Enough with Chandracheapo!The author expresses admiration for the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) achievement in landing a craft on the moon with limited...
26 Aug, 2023, 10.40 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3 will put India into a higher orbitBesides making a giant leap in technology, Chandrayaan-3 burnishes Isro's reputation for amazing frugality. The timing of the mission is al...
23 Aug, 2023, 11.48 PM IST
India's historic moon landing marks latest triumph in humanity's lunar exploration odyssey, here's a timelineIndia has successfully landed its spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander, on the Moon's surface. This achievement marks a significant mi...
23 Aug, 2023, 10.23 PM IST
Race to Moon: India soft lands at moon; where are the rest?Russia's Luna-25 probe met with an untimely end after colliding with the Moon's surface ahead of a planned landing. Meanwhile, China is aim...
23 Aug, 2023, 07.03 PM IST
India's boom, Russia's crunch: How money is shaping a new space raceThe space race India aims to win this week by landing first on the moon's south pole is about science, the politics of national prestige an...
22 Aug, 2023, 01.19 PM IST
Russia’s Moon failure a dent to its space partnership with ChinaThe failure of Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft to land near the south pole of the moon is a setback for its collaboration with China to establi...
21 Aug, 2023, 04.40 PM IST
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon: How and why it happenedThe Luna-25 was in a race with India's Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander module the only spacecraft in the race to touch down on the lunar sur...
21 Aug, 2023, 12.11 PM IST
How and why Russia's Luna-25 moon mission failedRussia's first mission to the moon in nearly 45 years has failed, as its Luna-25 spacecraft reportedly spun out of control and collided wit...
21 Aug, 2023, 11.52 AM IST
Russia's Luna crashes: Why it's so difficult to land on Moon and what ISRO has planned for Chandryaaan-3 safe landingRussia's first lunar mission in 47 years, Luna-25, crashed into the Moon, leaving India's Chandrayaan-3 mission as the only spacecraft in t...
21 Aug, 2023, 11.43 AM IST
Russia's first lunar mission in decades fails; leaves India's Chandrayaan-3 only spacecraft in the race to land on moonThe Russian spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, which has difficult terrain, on Augu...
20 Aug, 2023, 09.06 PM IST
Russia's moon craft, in race to find ice, starts processing first dataThe Russian Luna-25 mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, to co...
14 Aug, 2023, 04.23 PM IST
A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won't be the firstThe very first human-made artefact to make contact with the Moon was the Soviet Luna 2 in 1959 - an extraordinary feat, as it was only two ...
31 Jan, 2022, 11.59 AM IST
China prepares for return of Chang'e lunar probe with moon samplesThe Chang'e probe is expected to land in the Siziwang district of the vast Inner Mongolia region late Wednesday or early Thursday. It fired...
16 Dec, 2020, 11.33 AM IST
China's Chang'e-5 completes first orbital correction en route to EarthThe Chang'e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner was launched on November 24, and its lander-ascender combi...
14 Dec, 2020, 04.27 PM IST
Chinese space capsule with 2 kgs moon rocks begins return to EarthThe return capsule is expected to land in northern China in the Inner Mongolia region after a three-day journey. The material would be the ...
13 Dec, 2020, 10.58 AM IST
- Chandrayaan-2 to get closer to moon
India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, a Rs 425 crore project, took a definite shape with Isro on Monday announcing details of ...
02 Sep, 2010, 08.13 AM IST