Moon Mission

NASA is making headway in its preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, which will send astronauts on a mission around the moon.  Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have attached the heat shield to the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft. Orion and its four-person crew are scheduled to…

P Veeramuthuvel is the scientist who is the brains behind the Chandrayaan 3 project of ISRO, which is set to be launched on July 14. India’s space and technology industry is set to take a leap with a new and improved space mission, Chandrayaan 3. The Indian Space Research Organisation…

BENGALURU: India’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3 , will lift off from the spaceport in Sriharikota at 2.35pm on July 14 onboard the GSLV-Mk3 or LVM3 and if all goes as per plan, Vikram (lander) will land on Moon on August 23 or 24. Isro chairman S Somanath said in Bengaluru:…

Illustration of NASA’s Orion spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. Orion needs a heat shield to protect it from the extremely high temperatures the spacecraft will meet on its way home. Credit: NASA On June 25, 2023, the heat shield was successfully installed on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday integrated the encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 with the launch vehicle-- LVM3 at Satish Dhawan Space Centre here. "Today, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, the encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 is mated with LVM3," tweeted ISRO. The space agency's chairman S Somnath last…

Home News Spaceflight Artemis 2 moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen, of the Canadian Space Agency, speaks in front of two Canadian flags. (Image credit: Canadian Space Agency) Canada's Artemis 2 astronaut says his country is just getting started in lunar realms with his round-the-moon mission. Jeremy Hansen was named Canada's representative…

NASA's new moon spacecraft is getting a next-generation communication system.  The Orion capsule undergoing preparations for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida recently received an essential piece of mission hardware. A laser communication module, called the Artemis 2 Optical Communications System (O2O),…

If NASA planning remains on the rails politically, technically and financially, the United States will plant new footprints on the moon toward the end of 2025. That touchdown, on a mission called Artemis 3, will be the first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 moonwalkers stirred up the gray dust…

Home News Spaceflight Artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX) NASA is worried that SpaceX's giant new Starship vehicle won't be ready to carry astronauts to the surface of the moon in late 2025, as currently planned. In 2021, the agency selected Starship — the biggest…

Space The large landing vehicles planned for NASA’s upcoming moon missions could throw up large amounts of dust from the lunar surface, posing a possible danger to orbiters By Jonathan O’Callaghan Artist’s depiction of the Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, which NASA has selected for its Artemis V mission Blue…