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Japan’s SLIM moon lander defies death to survive 3rd frigid lunar night (image)
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The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has survived its third week-long night on the moon. This is despite the fact the ...
NASA’s Artemis 3 astronauts will put a moonquake detector on lunar surface
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The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of the first three potential payloads NASA selected for the Artemis 3 mission, which ...
Intuitive Machines’ historic private moon moon mission comes to an end
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The first successful private moon-landing mission is officially over. On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines‘ Odysseus spacecraft, affectionately known as Odie, touched down ...
Peregrine payloads returned useful data despite no lunar landing
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Despite not making it to the moon, NASA and others flying payloads on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander say ...
China names the spacecraft that will put its astronauts on the moon (video)
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China’s human spaceflight agency has given names to spacecraft being developed to put astronauts on the moon. Mengzhou is the name for ...
Moon lander Odysseus will be put to sleep soon
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Odysseus, which touched down on the moon last week, has about three hours left before Intuitive Machines puts it “to sleep” in ...
Toppled moon lander sends back more images, with only hours left until it dies
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A moon lander that ended up on its side managed to beam back more pictures, with only ...
Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ miraculously wakes up on lunar surface
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Japan’s “Moon Sniper” ...
China names ‘Dream Vessel’ spacecraft it hopes will take astronauts to the moon
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China’s space agency has revealed the names of the spacecraft that it hopes will take Chinese astronauts to the moon by the ...
Experimental technology enabled a historic moon landing
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