India's space agency said Saturday it had shut down its lunar rover after completing two weeks of experiments. The images that were sent to Earth are spectacular. The Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was "set to sleep mode" but with the batteries charged and the receiver turned on, the Organization declared [...]
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India lands on the lunar South Pole, water ice exploration begins
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India's space agency will seek to land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole tomorrow, a mission that could advance India's space ambitions and broaden knowledge of lunar water ice, potentially one of our most valuable resources. satellite. Space agencies and private companies consider the presence of lunar ice a [...]
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Russia's first lunar mission failed, the Luna-25 space probe went out of control and crashed on the Moon following a pre-landing orbit preparation problem. A failure that highlights the post-Soviet decline on a space program. The Russian state space agency, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact [...]
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An exciting future in space exploration is looming thanks to the synergy between the Italian Space Agency and the Politecnico di Milano. The groundbreaking ORACLE (Oxygen Retrieval Asset by Carbothermal-reduction in Lunar Environment) project is at the heart of this ambitious collaboration, aiming to extract oxygen from lunar regolith to facilitate long-term human presence on the Moon. […]
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Successfully launched Artemis I The first Artemis mission, the NASA program in collaboration with the European Space Agency, was successfully launched from the famous 16B launch complex of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Wednesday 7 November at 47:39 Italian time (ESA) with the aim of bringing the first woman and the next man […]
read moreLeonardo: at work on robotic arms for NASA and ESA missions Mars Sample Return The robotic exploration of Mars is at the center of recent international missions and also in Leonardo's laboratories cutting-edge robotic systems are being studied to contribute to the discovery of the secrets of the Red Planet . As part of NASA's "Mars Sample Return" campaign, in collaboration [...]
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On the occasion of the fifty-one anniversary of the landing of man on the moon, the Ministry of Education hosted on its social channels a video of the ESA astronaut, the European Space Agency, Luca Parmitano who is also a pilot officer of the Air Force . "July 20 is a particularly important date for me: a year ago I was sitting inside my [...]
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The US President, Donald Trump presented the Fiscal Year 2021, many innovations that affect new ambitious goals. A $ 4.800 billion budget, writes Il Sole 24Ore, with major cuts to social programs in favor of defense and border control. "A Budget for America's Future", this is the title of the maneuver, [...]
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Leonardo: contract signed with ESA for the construction of PROSPECT, the drill and the scientific laboratory to discover the secrets of the Moon Leonardo has signed a € 31,5 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the construction of PROSPECT, the drill and the mini-laboratory for Luna-27, a mission of ESA and Roscosmos, with [...]
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China last Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. China is on track to launch its mission to Mars, said Zhang Kejian, head of China National Space on Thursday [...]
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The Indian lunar mission is called "Chandrayaan-2" will make India the fourth nation capable of placing its own equipment on the moon. The mission started from the Sriharikota Space Center in the south-east of the country. The purpose of the expedition is to place a lander and a mobile robot near the satellite's south pole, as well as to position [...]
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