India's Moon probe sends the first image to Earth
Images captured by Vikram landing gear via Camera LI4 lens equipped on India's Chandrayaan-2 on August 3.
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Images captured by Vikram landing gear via Camera LI4 lens equipped on India's Chandrayaan-2 on August 3.
India launched Moon 2 spacecraft called Chandrayaan-2 from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
India's Moon mission had to be canceled in less than an hour before taking off the spacecraft to probe on July 15, following a technical incident.
In 1973, the Soviet Union put the probe system named Lunokhod-2 on the Moon, this device carried out exploration activities on January 16, 1973 to May 10, 1973.
China on October 24 launched an unmanned spacecraft to test the technology to be used on Changshu 5, the probe carrying the Moon mission can return to Earth on its own.
On the morning of November 1, the Chinese moon probe safely returned to Earth, making it the third country to successfully bring the probe to the Moon.
Chinese news agency Xinhua recently announced that China will land the unmanned first device on the moon in the second half of 2013.
All communications with India's only satellite orbiting the moon's orbit have been cut off, the country's space agency said.
The Indian Space Research Authority has just decided to end the moon expedition, after scientists lost all contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
The US space agency (NASA) announced on August 14 that it was postponing the unmanned spacecraft to explore the moon until February 2009 instead of December 2008 as prev…
China is expected to launch the first ship to explore the Moon around 6 pm tomorrow (October 24), from the Xuchang Satellite Launch Center of Sichuan Province.
Yesterday 24.10, the new era of Moon's discovery with Chinese presence became a reality when the country successfully launched its first probe satellite into the Moon's…
The Japanese space agency successfully launched the country's first moon probe. The H-2A rocket carrying the ship took off on the southern island of Tanegashima.
Japan prepares to launch the first probe around the Moon with the intention of establishing a permanent base on the planet in 2025.
According to Xinhua, China will almost certainly launch the lunar exploration ship in the second half of this year, starting its three-phase Lunar exploration program.