Chandrayaan-2 has completed one year, has seven years of fuel left, says ISRO

The agency added that the spacecraft was ‘healthy’ and subsystems were performing normally.

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· Aug 21, 2020 · 12:42 pm

Long before astronauts reached the moon, artists were already there – drawing and writing about it

Writers such as Jules Verne penned eerily accurate stories about space exploration, years before rockets took off from Earth.

Anne Collins Goodyear, The Conversation

· Jul 16, 2019 · 11:30 pm

As China broadens its moon mission, will a manned lunar base be next?

Can China build a lunar base? Absolutely. But getting human beings survive on the moon and other planets in the long term will be a lot more complicated.

Joshua Chou, The Conversation

· Jan 27, 2019 · 11:30 pm

China says it has launched first-ever lunar probe to land on far side of the moon

The former Soviet Union and the United States have sent probes to explore the moon’s dark side, but their satellites did not land.

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· Dec 08, 2018 · 07:56 pm

Half of all lunar missions have failed, Chandrayaan 2 is a calculated risk, says ISRO chief K Sivan

Sivan said this mission’s landing site on the Moon is a location where no other country has gone before.

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· Sep 23, 2018 · 01:04 pm

India’s Chandrayaan-II mission to the moon postponed again due to technical glitches: NDTV

The director of ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre, M Annadurai, said the lunar exploration mission is now likely to be launched only in 2019.

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· Aug 04, 2018 · 08:46 pm

India aims to send Chandrayaan-II to moon’s south pole this April

The unmanned mission packs in ‘more power than the Apollo missions by NASA’, the government said.

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· Feb 17, 2018 · 05:33 pm

Blue Origin plans to start Amazon-like delivery service to the moon by 2020, says Jeff Bezos

A lunar spacecraft will be built to help carry over 10,000 pounds of experimental gear and cargo along with people, he said.

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· Mar 03, 2017 · 04:45 pm

Isro conducts simulation tests for second Chandrayaan moon mission

Several craters resembling lunar terrain have been created on the research facility's grounds in Karnataka's Challakere.

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· Nov 11, 2016 · 07:49 pm