The agency will reveal the faces of the Artemis III crew members and make important progress announcements about its lunar mission program during a June 9 broadcast event from Johnson Space Center in Houston. As mentioned above, the Artemis III mission is one of many projects in NASA’s Artemis program. The project will take astronauts … Read more
BENGALURU: When India’s lunar lander Vikram briefly lifted off and returned to the moon in 2023, it marked a small but significant moment in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. Now, brief “jumps” lasting about three minutes are helping scientists piece together what’s beneath the moon’s surface using very fine measurements.A maneuver near the end of the mission … Read more
New Delhi: A new international study involving researchers from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), IISER and the Institute of Remote Sensing suggests that water ice deposits in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon are much more stable than previously thought.“The Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) are capable of preserving water ice and other frozen … Read more
Astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft spent the first hours after launch observing Earth and recording scenes from space, even as the mission successfully performed a critical engine burn to push toward the moon.Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen described the view from orbit, saying, “We’re seeing a beautiful view of the dark side of the Earth illuminated … Read more
The United States is preparing to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years artemis iimarking an important step in human lunar exploration after a long pause since the Apollo era. NASA’s Artemis 2 flyby mission to the moon, including the next-generation lunar rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) … Read more