Japan Makes Historic “Soft Landing” on the Moon, Faces Power Issues on Lunar Surface

Japan Makes Historic “Soft Landing” on the Moon, Faces Power Issues on Lunar Surface

Tokyo – Japan became the fifth country in the world to successfully carry out a “soft landing” on the surface Moon. However, the Japanese space vehicle on the Moon, named “Moon Sniper”, reportedly ran out of power due to solar battery problems. As reported AFPSaturday (20/1/2024), Japan followed in the footsteps of the United States … Read more

NASA Establishes New Office for Artemis 2 and Future Moon Missions Planning

The core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch NASA’s Artemis 2 mission. Image: NASA/Michael DeMocker SPACE — In preparation for the enhanced Artemis 2 mission, the United States Agency (NASA) has established a new office. The office is a congressional mandate tasked with overseeing planning for the Artemis 2 mission … Read more

NASA is set to unveil a crew of four, consisting of three Americans and a Canadian, who will carry out the Artemis II mission. The mission is part of NASA’s program to send humans back to the Moon and aims to demonstrate that all of Orion’s life support equipment and other systems will operate as designed with astronauts in space. The flight is targeted as early as 2024.

NASA’s next-generation rocket and Orion spacecraft when it is set to launch in November 2022. (Reuters) SPACE — The American Space Agency (NASA) is preparing to unveil four crew members who will carry out the Artemis II mission. Artemis is NASA’s program to send humans back to the Moon. Reported from Daily Sabah, a crew … Read more

This crater is similar to the moon, it could be a place for astronauts to practice

Jakarta – When scientists in the mid-1970s determined that the Mistastin crater in Labrador, Canada, had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo missions had already flown and it was too late for astronauts to use the site as a training ground. But now, the Moon exploration missions are starting to intensify again. NASA astronauts on the … Read more

The sun doesn’t shine here. The new spacecraft showed what the far side of the moon looks like (photo)

The South Korean orbiter was able to take pictures of a region on the moon where sunlight never reaches. Back in December last year, the first-ever spacecraft from South Korea called the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) or Danuri entered orbit around the moon. It is designed to create detailed maps of the lunar surface, … Read more

China Chang’e 5 Moon Mission finds exotic rocks

Loading… The mission to the Chinese moon Chang’e 5 has discovered an exotic type of igneous rock with an extraordinary impact material. Photo/NASA/Space BEIJING – Mission to the Moon China Chang’e 5 discovers exotic igneous rock types with materials of extraordinary impact. These rocks can provide important information about the diversity of surface geology moon … Read more

Who are the astronauts transported by the Orion ship in Mission Artemis 1?

Jakarta, CNNI Indonesia — The US Aeronautics and Space Administration’s SLS rocket (NASA) has already brought the plane Orion to orbit the Moon on the Artemis 1 mission. How many astronauts did it carry? To collect The limit, Orion is designed for missions beyond Earth orbit. The hope is that Orion could be used to … Read more

NASA launches Artemis 1 rocket, mission to Moon begins

Jakarta, CNNI Indonesia — NASA finally officially launched the rocket Artemis 1 Wednesday (16/11) afternoon WIB. The launch took place in Florida, USA. “After many delays and problems, NASA has finally launched the Artemis 1 rocket, the most powerful rocket NASA has ever developed and aims to bring humans back to the surface of the … Read more

NASA’s Artemis 1 SLS rocket flies into space tonight

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — The mission that aims to return humans to the moon, Artemis 1will fly into space using the Orion spacecraft tonight, Thursday (11/17) in the morning. The giant rocket Space Launch System (SLS) will carry out this mission in the launch window which lasts only two hours, ie Thursday (17/11) from 01.04 … Read more

NASA’s mini satellite successfully lands on the moon

CAPSTONE stands for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment. CAPSTONE successfully entered a nearly circular halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon. This is the very elliptical path that NASA’s Gateway Space Station will also take. NASA plans to launch the first part of the Gateway, a key part of the Artemis program … Read more