Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

Problems with laser altimeters along with lighting and terrain challenges caused Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to ...

and another to avoid Chandrayaan-2 and to evade Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft shortly before the latter's touchdown on the moon's near side in January, SpaceNews ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now orbiting the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

ISRO and JAXA convened for the third Technical Interface Meeting in Bengaluru to advance the Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX mission, a ...

Narayanan confirmed the Centre’s approval for Chandrayaan ... Athena lunar lander has successfully landed near the Moon’s south pole as part of NASA’s IM-2 mission. Launched aboard a SpaceX ...

and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The Chandrayaan-2 mission (2019) achieved a 98% success rate, though the lander failed in its final stage. However, the onboard high-resolution camera ...

BENGALURU: Senior space scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

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BENGALURU: The Shiva Shakti Point, the landing site of Chandrayaan-3 moon lander Vikram, is significant not only as a ...