India’s daring moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, lost contact just above the lunar surface, dashing Indian dreams of becoming just the fourth country to successfully land on the moon. Source: https://www.livescience.com/india-loses-contact-lunar-lander.html
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India’s Moon mission: Preparing a pitstop for Mars
India is due this weekend to become only the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to land a spacecraft on the Moon, but there is more at stake than that. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-india-moon-mission-pitstop-mars.html…
Indian moon mission’s landing module separates from orbiter
India’s space agency says the landing module of the country’s unmanned moon mission has separated from the orbiter ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-indian-moon-mission-module-orbiter.html…
Did these tardigrades survive crash-landing on the moon?
When Israel’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades – water bears – aboard. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tardigrades-lunar-library-beresheet-spacecraft-crash-moon…
Update on India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission
Tomorrow, the spacecraft will shift from its orbit of Earth toward a path to the moon. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-update…
India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon
India launched its second moon mission on 22 July. The mission will place a lander and rover near the moon’s south pole, a promising site for human exploration Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209545-india-has-launched-its-chandrayaan-2-mission-to-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…