Japan Moon lander revives after lunar nightJapan's Moon lander, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), has woke up after a two-week lunar night, according to the Ja...
26 Feb, 2024, 05.45 PM IST
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' attempts precision lunar landingJapan's precision "Moon Sniper" began its "power descent sequence" early Saturday towards the lunar surface, one of several new missions sp...
20 Jan, 2024, 02.47 PM IST
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' attempts historic lunar landingWith its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, Japan wants to become the fifth nation to pull off a fiendishly tricky soft la...
19 Jan, 2024, 08.26 AM IST
Chandrayaan-3: India takes a walk on the moon as ISRO confirms rover Pragyan's rolloutAfter India's Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the moon's south pole on Wednesday evening, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO...
24 Aug, 2023, 12.53 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3: Everything you need to know about India's Moon missionIndia successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 near the moon's south pole, making it the first country to do so. The mission showcases India's...
24 Aug, 2023, 12.19 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
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
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch in pre-landing maneuverRussia's moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft has encountered an “abnormal situation” prior to entering the pre-landing orbit, according to Roscos...
21 Aug, 2023, 12.06 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3 completes second round of deboosting; comes closer to the moonISRO announced on Sunday that it has successfully reduced the orbit of the Chandrayaan-3 mission's Lander Module (LM), bringing it closer t...
20 Aug, 2023, 05.06 PM IST
Russia blasts off first Moon mission in nearly 50 years days after Chandrayaan-3 launchThe Luna-25 launched flawlessly from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, according to video feed from Roscosmos. The spaceport i...
11 Aug, 2023, 08.59 AM IST
Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters lunar orbit: ISROIndia's third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, has successfully been inserted into the lunar orbit, according to ISRO. The required maneuver wa...
06 Aug, 2023, 08.11 AM IST
ISRO successfully performs fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraftISRO scientists performed the manoeuvre from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC). The next firing is planned for July...
21 Jul, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 planned at 5.47 pm on August 23, says ISRO chiefIndia's third moon mission Chandrayaan 3 will attempt the technically challenging soft landing on lunar surface on August 23, ISRO Chairman...
17 Jul, 2023, 05.40 PM IST
Why Chandrayaan-2 is taking 48 days to reach Moon when Apollo-11 took just 4The answer lies in the build of the rocket, the amount of fuel it’s carrying and the speed of the lunarcraft.
09 Aug, 2019, 11.16 AM IST
Why the world keeps returning to ChandamamaThe first object from Earth to kiss Moon was USSR’s Luna-2 craft, on Sept 14, 1959.
02 Jul, 2019, 11.25 AM IST
Moon Mission: Giant leap for startupIt's literally a moonshot, said Sharad Sharma. Team Indus, he said, is the embodiment of the new type of Indian entrepreneur - the missiona...
11 Dec, 2014, 11.52 AM IST
China completes first return mission to moonSearch teams recovered the orbiter at the designated landing area, about 500 kilometres away from Beijing, state- run Xinhua news agency re...
01 Nov, 2014, 11.22 AM IST