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ISRO releases initial data from India's second moon mission Chandrayaan 2
•The Chandrayaan-2 mission was India''s first attempt to land on the lunar surface.
Chang'e 5 puts China's flag on the moon; canister with lunar rock, dirt to reach Earth by 17 Dec
Tech2 News Staff •The Chinese lunar probe consists of four separate modules working together - the orbiter, returner, the lander and the ascender - to bring the rocks back to Earth.
China’s Chang’e-4 probe resumes activities on the far side of the moon for 22nd lunar day
Trendingdesk •The Chinese space agency revealed that Yutu-2 will be moving northwest towards a “basalt area” that are some “impact craters with high reflectivity”.
Chandrayaan 3 to launch in early 2021, will have a lander-rover duo says Union Minister Jitendra Singh
•Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, has sent images which show that Earth's satellite may be rusting along the poles.
Chandrayaan 2 orbiter completes one year around the moon, has enough fuel for seven years: ISRO
•ISRO said that the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter has completed 17 orbit maintenance manoeuvres since achieving 100 km lunar orbit on 24th September 2019.
NASA's Perseverance rover will bring Mars rocks to Earth: Our greatest interplanetary circus act
•One of the key tasks for Perseverance is to drill up to 39 rock cores that look interesting enough to merit additional scrutiny on Earth.
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission: Science objectives, instruments on the first-of-its-kind tech demo to the Red Planet
Tech2 News Staff •If successful,Tianwen-1 will be signified as a major technical breakthrough in interplanetary mission technology.
Successful liftoff of China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission met with celebration, suspicion on Twitter
Tech2 News Staff •The lander and rover will perform a soft landing on Utopia Planitia, around two to three months after it arrives to Mars.
China launches first Tianwen-1 orbiter-lander-rover mission to Mars today; CNSA yet to confirm success
Tech2 News Staff •The launch is an open secret, with CNSA not particularly hiding the relevant information but not being very forthcoming with it either.
NASA chooses Astrobotic to launch VIPER rover to the moon as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Tech2 News Staff •VIPER is a solar-powered rover that will land on the moon sometime in 2023 and will stay there for a period of 100-Earth-days.