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  Chandrayaan-2: India's second Moon mission launch postponed to October

  India | March 23, 2018 16:26 IST

  The experts had met recently and suggested the tests, following which the mission will now be launched in October, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan said.

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  ISRO aims to launch Chandrayaan-2 satellite to moon by April

  Science | March 11, 2018 19:20 IST

  If the April launch of the Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, is not possible, then the ISRO will aim for a launch by October.

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  Vodafone to install 4G network on Moon in 2019 to assist lunar rovers

  Science | March 01, 2018 8:38 IST

  The planned network will enable PTScientists' lander to broadcast a live video from lunar surface to the audience on earth and facilitate the communication among the lander and rovers.

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  Witness 'Blood Moon' with a total lunar eclipse on January 31

  India | January 16, 2018 13:30 IST

  The January 31 total lunar eclipse will start around moonrise in the evening. It can be viewed anywhere in India, with naked eyes, facing the eastern sky, at the time of sunset.

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  Chandrayaan-2 mission on schedule, flight models going through various tests: ISRO

  India | January 12, 2018 16:10 IST

  In Chandrayan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, ISRO is planning to rover to explore the lunar surface.

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  Donald Trump wants to send man back to moon, on to Mars

  Science | December 12, 2017 8:23 IST

  The move, Trump said, "marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-time exploration."

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  India-Japan working towards a joint lunar mission: ISRO

  Science | November 17, 2017 20:22 IST

  Japan had also launched Hiten Spacecraft in 1990, the country's first lunar probe. India had launched its first lunar probe in 2008 through Chandrayaan-1, and is now gearing up for its next lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 in March next year.

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  Chandrayaan II, India's second mission to Moon, to be launched in 2018

  Science | October 25, 2017 9:13 IST

  The minister even said that India has emerged as the world's frontline nation in the field of Space Technology.

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  Tunnels on moon, Mars carved out by volcanoes could serve as human colonies

  Science | September 26, 2017 15:33 IST

  Lava tubes - underground caves created by volcanic activity - could provide protected habitats large enough to house streets or even towns on the Moon and Mars

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  In rare occultation, Moon blocks out Venus, Mars, Mercury and a star after 28 years

  Science | September 19, 2017 13:49 IST

  In a rare celestial show that came as treat for sky-watchers, the Moon aligned itself with three planets and of the biggest stars visible from Earth

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  India's Chandrayaan-1 helps scientists map water on Moon

  World | September 14, 2017 17:14 IST

  Using newly-calibrated data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have created the first global map of water in the Moon's soil

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  China plans to install cabin on moon

  World | May 11, 2017 11:36 IST

  China is reportedly planning longer stays on Moon although it remains unclear exactly how long China's first lunar explorers will spend on the surface.

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  ISRO plans to mine energy from Moon by 2030: Report

  India | April 20, 2017 16:11 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) is reportedly planning to help India meet its energy needs from the Moon by 2030.

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  ISRO’s lost Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting the Moon, says NASA

  World | March 10, 2017 17:10 IST

  India’s first lunar probe, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which had gone missing after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with it on August 29, 2009, has been found orbiting the Moon by US space

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  Near miss: Alert scientists help NASA orbiter avoid collision with Mars moon

  World | March 03, 2017 19:06 IST

  A timely alert by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, prompted an unscheduled manoeuvre by the MAVEN spacecraft that helped it avoid a potentially catastrophic collision with Mars’ moon Phobos. The

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  NASA assessing possibilities of manned Orion mission to orbit moon

  World | February 25, 2017 18:12 IST

  US space agency NASA is considering to assess the feasibility of sending humans to space with the first flight of the Space Launch System rocket as it aims to orbit the Moon. NASA is building

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  Gene Cernan, last astronaut to walk on moon, dies at 82

  World | January 17, 2017 11:16 IST

  US astronaut Gene Cernan - the last man to walk on the Moon – passed away here on Monday. He was 82.

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  Scientists pinpoint the exact age of Moon and it’s older than we thought

  World | January 13, 2017 18:09 IST

  Scientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study

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  Solar storms could trigger sparks and melt soil on Moon: NASA

  World | January 09, 2017 14:41 IST

  Powerful solar storms can charge up the surface in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the poles of the Moon and possibly produce "sparks" that vaporise and melt the lunar soil, a new NASA study has found.

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  China plans to land probes on Moon and Mars by 2020

  World | December 28, 2016 18:51 IST

  China has speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.