FLORIDA: A privately built moon lander, the Peregrine, designed by space robotics firm Astrobotic, encountered a technical problem jeopardising the prospect of the first US soft lunar landing since 1972. Launched on the maiden flight of the Vulcan rocket, a collaboration between Boeing and Lockheed Martin,
UNITED NATIONS: India’s UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj parried a question on the Kashmir dispute at a special press conference she convened at the UN Headquarters in New York to highlight her country’s success in landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon. “This is not the moment
MOSCOW: Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday in a bid to be the first nation to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted pockets of water ice. The Russian lunar mission, the first