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China launches satellite to support future moon missions (video)
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Dr. Sarah Adams
China launched a satellite toward the moon this week to help support the country’s lunar ambitions. On Tuesday (March 19), a Long ...
Commercial moon lander enters lunar orbit ahead of Thursday landing try
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit ...
Private-sector lander launched on historic moon mission
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Lighting up the deep overnight sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander ...
India returns Chandrayaan-3 moon mission’s propulsion module to Earth orbit
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The spacecraft that ferried India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander-rover duo to the moon has returned home — sort of. In a surprise announcement on ...
