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Commentary: Almost half of moon missions fail – why space is still a big risk
But perhaps it’s better to step back from the details of individual missions and look at averages, to see the…
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Explainer: What is India’s next space mission after moon landing?
BENGALURU: On the heels of the success of the Chandrayaan-3 moon landing, India’s space agency has set a date for…
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Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ mission looks to match Indian success
TOKYO: Hot on the heels of India’s historic lunar landing, Japan’s space programme is hoping to rebound from a string of…
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Commentary: India landed a spacecraft on the moon, but where are its corporate moonshots?
Put a capability like that under a computer software tsar in Bengaluru, and you’ll get a flourishing outsourced service. But that’s all…
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North Korea’s frantic space launch pace brings advances – and setbacks
Thursday’s second flight was doomed instead by what state media said was a faulty “emergency blasting system” in the third…
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Indian rover begins exploring Moon’s south pole
NEW DELHI: India began exploring the Moon’s surface with a rover on Thursday (Aug 24), a day after it became…
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India’s historic cut-price moon mission set for touchdown
The mission launched nearly six weeks ago in front of thousands of cheering spectators, but took much longer to reach…
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Russia’s Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure
MOSCOW: Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the…
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Russia’s Luna-25 probe crashes on the Moon
The Luna-25 probe, Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the Moon after an incident during…
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India closes in on moon landing as Russia also races to lunar south pole
BENGALURU: India’s space agency on Friday (Aug 18) released images of the moon taken from its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft as it…
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