[ad_1] Japan’s “Moon Sniper” craft landed around 55 metres (180 feet) from its target, the country’s space agency said as it released the first images from the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) moon mission. The photo taken by a mini-rover showed the boxy yellow lander sitting intact at a slight angle on the rocky …
[ad_1] That’s one big bang for space station safety. Sierra Space deliberately blew up its first full-scale space station module prototype recently to get ready for future space missions that could take place as soon as 2030, the company announced on Monday (Jan. 22). The blast was equivalent to using 164 sticks of dynamite, officials …
[ad_1] The Indian Space Research Organization just shared a video capturing the moment when Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover “stepped onto” the moon’s surface for the first time — as well as the first image of the rover and the mission’s lander taken from orbit. Although the Pragyan rover disembarked from the landing platform on Wednesday (Aug. …
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