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Watch this Space: Mystery cosmic ray and killing the International Space Station

November 27, 2023 8:29 am

Unlike most space junk, the 109-metre wide space station is too big to completely vapourise in Earth’s atmosphere upon reentry.

The image of the crater captured by NASA's LRO.

NASA spacecraft spots crater from Russian Luna 25 crash

September 01, 2023 10:42 am

NASA used its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to take pictures what could be an impact crater caused by the crash of the Russian Luna-25 mission.

Artist's illustration of the Chandrayaan-3 mission after it completed its final lunar orbit manoeuvre. (ISRO via Twitter)

Watch this space: Luna-25, Chandrayaan-3, Artemis 2 and the ‘lunar economy’ race

August 21, 2023 7:09 am

Russia's Luna-25, India's Chandrayaan-3, China's Chang'e 6 and the United States' Artemis 2 are just the beginning of a new race to "colonise" the Moon.

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch in pre-landing manoeuvre

August 20, 2023 12:17 pm

The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

Russia’s Luna-25 takes first photo of Moon’s surface from orbit

August 19, 2023 8:42 am

Russia's Luna-25 mission has sent back a high-resolution image of the lunar surface. To be specific, the Zeeman creater near the south pole on the far side of the Moon.

The images show structural elements of the Luna-25 spacecraft a well as the Earth and the Moon.

Russia’s Luna-25 sends back first images from space

August 16, 2023 11:20 am

Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, shared the first images sent back by the Luna-25 mission.

In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

Russia’s Luna 25 could beat Chandrayaan-3 to lunar south pole

August 13, 2023 9:22 am

Russia's Luna 25 mission launched from the Vosthochny cosmodrome today and it might beat India's Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon.

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 is lifted on the launchpad ahead of its upcoming launch at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, Russia.

Russia’s Luna-25 mission could land on lunar south pole before Chandrayaan-3

August 12, 2023 3:29 pm

Russia is set to launch Luna-25, its first lunar landing mission in 47 years, and it might land on the Moon's lunar south pole ahead of Chandrayaan-3, which launched nearly a month earlier.

Damaged russian soyuz spacecraft after lanidng

Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule lands back on Earth from space station

March 31, 2023 12:19 pm

The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia's space launches.

OneWeb 'moves on' from Soyuz-stranded satellites as its network nears completion

March 17, 2023 12:20 pm

OneWeb refused and canceled all its future Soyuz launches. But it has been unable to retrieve the satellites from their Soyuz launchsite at the Russia-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.