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.
And a parallel to what we’re building now as we return to the Moon.
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.
And how we’re going back like never before.
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…
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…
And how going back to the Moon will tell us how Earth and Luna formed.
Despite falling short on scientific promises, the orbiter boosted India’s fledgling planetary program.
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…