Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2019 - India lost contact with its unmanned spacecraft just before it was due to land on the Moon on Saturday, in a blow to the country's ambitious low-cost lunar programme.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 - After sitting in a vacuum chamber for 15 years, a gas-sniffing instrument will finally get its chance to fly. The device, a neutral mass spectrometer dubbed SEAL, is one of four instruments fr
New Delhi (IANS) Sep 05, 2019 - The second de-orbiting manoeuvre of Chandrayaan -2 spacecraft was successfully carried out early Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, inching towards achieving a historic soft-lan
New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 - The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section, the lowest portion of the massive core stage for NASA's rocket, is assembled and ready to be mated to the rest of the rocket's core stage.
New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 - There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can dangle it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but n
Guildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 - The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t
New Delhi (IANS) Aug 29, 2019 - The telemetry, tracking and command network of the Indian space agency (ISTRAC) performed the third lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, the agency said on Wednesday. The next
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2019 - The Trump administration asked the US Congress in May to increase NASA spending next year to accommodate the goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is offering $7
New Delhi (IANS) Aug 27, 2019 - Chandrayaan-2 has captured the first image of the Moon, two days after entering the lunar orbit. The picture was taken by Vikram, the spacecraft's lander and shows the Mare Orientale basin and Apoll
Beijing (XNA) Aug 27, 2019 - The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the ninth lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 8:10 a
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 - NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface. NASA is engaging t
Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2019 - How would you design a system to detect, map and explore caves on the Moon? Our latest hunt for ideas is seeking novel initiatives that address this question. While the surface of the Moon has
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 - Astrobotic reports it has selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. We ar
Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2019 - Over the next two weeks ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Drew Feustel and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai will take part in a new NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) m
Brampton, Canada (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 - MDA, a Maxar company, has been awarded two contracts from the Canadian Space Agency for work on Phase A of the Gateway External Robotic Interfaces project. The Gateway External Robotic Interfa
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 - India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon.
