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The story of finding water on the Moon spans at least two decades and multiple space agencies, culminating in renewed lunar exploration plans across the…
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When a seemingly benign left-out hyphen in the code can demolish your rocket, a planetary spacecraft, and millions of dollars.
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And a parallel to what we’re building now as we return to the Moon.
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Earth alone cannot power our future in space, and other realizations from the rocket equation.
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A look at all the big and small mobile robots that will explore the lunar surface over the next five years.
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And how we’re going back like never before.
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As we mount a series of increasingly complex Moon missions, let’s look at some past lunar mission mistakes we could learn from, from Apollo to recent…
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Forcibly calling what was a great tech demonstrator also a great scientific success is not just wrong but dangerous. It instills in a large population a…
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To increase the chances of sticking the landing this time around, ISRO has made several upgrades to the Chandrayaan-2-like lander such as software…
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And how going back to the Moon will tell us how Earth and Luna formed.
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Despite falling short on scientific promises, the orbiter boosted India’s fledgling planetary program.
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If ispace successfully lands Hakuto-R on the Moon, it will be the first private entity as well as the fourth organization in the world to achieve the…
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