After a postponed launch, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft started its journey to the Moon on July 22. Onboard it carried the Vikram lander and the exploratory Pragyan rover, equipped to search the lunar south pole for water and other valuable resources. Things were going well for the lander until just before...
U.S., India, China Step-Up Moon Exploration
NASA scientists have plans to visit the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point, or EML-2, about 37,000 miles above the far side of the Moon, where the gravitational pull of two separate bodies creates "parking places" or stable areas to land orbiting spacecraft. There is no clear timeline to this plan yet. China...
India, U.S. to co-operate in Moon, Mars Missions
India and the United States have agreed to expand their cooperation in civil space activities ranging from weather and monsoon forecasting to cooperative space exploration work, including future mission to the moon and Mars. According to a joint statement issued after the meeting, it was said that "Building on NASA's...