NASA’s Artemis II mission is nearing completion after astronauts travelled farther than any humans in history during a lunar flyby. The Orion spacecraft is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean, marking a milestone in humanity’s return to deep-space exploration.
NASA has begun fuelling its Space Launch System rocket for Artemis II, marking the first human lunar mission in over 50 years. Four astronauts will travel beyond the moon, setting new distance records and advancing plans for future lunar exploration
NASA successfully completed a second fueling test of its Artemis II Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center, addressing prior hydrogen leaks, as engineers assess March launch readiness for the first lunar crewed mission since Apollo 17
China is rapidly advancing toward its first crewed lunar landing by 2030, developing new spacecraft, rockets, and spacesuits. Its steady progress rivals NASA’s Artemis program, raising geopolitical stakes and highlighting Beijing’s growing technological, strategic, and symbolic ambitions in space exploration
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has invited proposals from the scientific community to analyse Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover data. The datasets, released publicly in August 2024, include findings on lunar seismicity, thermo-physical properties, plasma environment, and elemental composition.
The latest analysis of data from one of the instruments aboard Chandrayaan-3 that had successfully soft-landed in August 2023 reveals the presence of water ice outside the Moon’s polar regions
Ahead of the second phase of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, former Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO chief K Sivan expressed optimism and said that the success of the wakeup call regarding the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover is something which "we have to wait and see".
Odyssey of Indian space programmes may appear all of a sudden but each is according to a master plan — from the first satellite Aryabhatta to Chandrayaan-3
India made history on Wednesday as its Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 became the first to land in the uncharted south pole of the Earth's only natural satellite
Just a few hours ago, the Chandrayaan-3's lander 'Vikram' successfully detached from the spacecraft. The lander and rover, Pragyaan, are now expected to land on the Moon on August 23.
Luna-25 took off atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny launch facility in Russia at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time (4:40 am IST) on Friday, TASS news agency reported.
