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Explained | Significance of China’s Chang’e-6 mission

May 06, 2024

Explained | Significance of China’s Chang’e-6 mission

It is the first endeavour of its kind in the history of human lunar exploration

January 06, 2024
ISRO's solar observatory Aditya-L1 successfully injected into final orbit

According to ISRO officials, the spacecraft was placed in a halo orbit around Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
October 20, 2023
Gaganyaan mission: India's first human space flight test vehicle launch tomorrow

The Test Vehicle mission with this Crew Module is a significant milestone for the overall Gaganyaan programme as a nearly complete system is integrated for a flight test.
September 10, 2023
Mission Sun: Aditya L1 successfully undergoes third earth-bound manoeuvre, says ISRO

The space agency's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) carried out the operation.
September 28, 2022
NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday.
September 19, 2021
SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew splashes down safely off Florida

The Inspiration4 team blasted off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral atop one of SpaceX's two-stage reusable Falcon 9 rockets.
July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos makes 11-minute space journey on his company's first passenger flight

The mission was part of a fiercely competitive battle between Bezos' Blue Origin and fellow billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to tap a potentially lucrative space tourism market.

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