Following a historic July 22 launch on a GSLV Mk-III rocket from the east coast of India, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft – the robotic lander and rover, specifically – attempted a soft landing on the surface of the Moon on Friday. All was proceeding to plan until just 2km above the surface when telemetry was lost and the vehicle will have likely crashed into the lunar surface.
Coming 20 years after the x-ray telescope’s launch, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory has greatly aided…
Just a few days from the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission that landed…
At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on Jan. 11, three teams…
OneWeb has resumed deployment of its satellite constellation with the launch of 36 satellites aboard…
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have released the…
India launched its 55th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) – in its Core Alone (CA)…
India launched the PSLV-XL rocket for the nation’s first mission of 2022. Following last August’s…
The pioneering Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) telescope, the first observatory in space to perform…
NASA and SpaceX have launched the revolutionary Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory from…
The NASA VIPER rover – a precursor mission to human landings in the south polar…
The Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, conducted the 51st launch of their Polar Satellite Launch…
From finding organic molecules in distant stars to discovering water on the sunlit surface of…
Humanity’s fleet of robotic explorers peppered throughout the solar system continue to reveal new and…
NASA has initialized plans via a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for 12 additional Solid…
Northrop Grumman Space Systems has successfully completed the deployment of the Primary Mirror on NASA’s…
ISRO launched the fiftieth PSLV mission Wednesday, with its workhorse rocket flying for the second…
India deployed the first in a new generation of remote sensing satellites Wednesday, via its…
NASA’s award to SpaceX for the launch contract for their future X-ray telescope, the Imaging…
After another launch scrub for weather, Space Shuttle mission STS-93 lifted off from the Kennedy…