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India becomes first country to land spacecraft on moon’s south pole

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday became the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s largely unexplored south pole. The Chandrayaan-3 moon mission was launched on July 14. Its lander module detached from the propulsion system a few days ago and the “soft”, or controlled, landing began at 5.44 pm India time on Wednesday. […]

UAE on edge as ‘Hope’ probe poised to enter Mars orbit

DUBAI: A tense half-hour on Tuesday will determine the fate of the UAE’s “Hope” probe to Mars, as the Arab world’s first space mission carries out a tricky manoeuvre to enter the Red Planet’s orbit. If successful, the probe which is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, will become the first of three spacecraft […]

China launches Chang’e-5 to collect, return moon samples

WENCHANG: China Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country’s first attempt to retrieve samples from an extra-terrestrial body, Xinhua news agency reported. A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at […]