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Odysseus lander shown touching down on moon with broken leg in dramatic new pictures | Science & Tech News
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Dramatic new images have been released of the Odysseus spacecraft landing on the moon. The pictures, along with huge amounts of data, have been downloaded just hours before night falls at the lunar south pole and the lander’s batteries run out of power. Intuitive Machines, the US company behind the mission, said it will now…
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Japan’s moon lander makes ‘miracle’ response to signal from Earth | World News
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Japan’s first moon lander has responded to a signal from Earth in what has been hailed as a “miracle” by the country’s space agency. The response, received late on Sunday, suggests the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) craft survived a second freezing weeks-long lunar night, when temperatures can plunge to -170C. The Japan Aerospace…
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Moon landing: US lander successfully touches down in ‘giant leap forward for all of humanity’ | Science & Tech News
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The Odysseus lander has successfully touched down after a “nail-biting” descent saw the first ever privately owned craft reach the moon’s surface. The Intuitive Machines’ lander is also the first US lander to successfully reach the moon in more than 50 years – since the last of NASA’s Apollo programme in 1972. There was applause…
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Doomed Peregrine moon lander to be allowed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, says Astrobotic | World News
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The spacecraft which attempted the first US moon landing in more than 50 years is to be allowed to “burn up” during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, the company behind the mission has said. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic said it had made the “difficult decision” to maintain the craft’s trajectory and was working with NASA and the space…
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India launches rocket towards the sun after successful moon lander mission | World News
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Ten days after India’s success in landing the first ever spacecraft on the southern side of the moon, the country has launched ‘Aditya L1’, its first mission to study the sun. The spacecraft was launched on the polar satellite launch vehicle rocket, from Sriharikota on the eastern coast of India at 11.50am local time. The…
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India announces moon lander days from touching down – as Russian craft crashes | World News
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India could be about to take one giant leap ahead of Russia in the space race – with its latest lunar mission just days away from attempting to land. India’s space agency ISRO announced via X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday that it will attempt to land its Vikram robotic lander on Wednesday. The…
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Luna-25: Russia starts processing data from moon lander hoping to make history | Science & Tech News
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Russian experts monitoring their moon-bound unmanned spacecraft Luna-25 have switched on its scientific equipment and started processing the first data. Russia is aiming to become the first country to carry out a soft landing on the lunar south pole – a region thought to hold pockets of water ice. Space agency Roscosmos said in a…