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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 shares incredible pictures of Mars captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to celebrate its 15th anniversary
Trendingdesk •The orbiter has managed to capture the multiple spacecrafts - Spirit, Opportunity as well as the Curiosity rover - trekking and exploring Mars.
ISRO marks Vikram Sarabhai's birthday with Chandrayaan 2's photos of Sarabhai crater
Tech2 News Staff123 •Within 300 kilometres east of the crater is the site where the Apollo 17 and Luna 21 missions had landed.
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.
UAE's Mars orbiter mission seeks to bring Hope to more places than just the red planet
•Despite being the third-richest country in the world, the UAE’s scientific and engineering community is still small.
UAE's Hope probe to Mars launch further delayed due to bad weather in Japan; will attempt to launch between 20-22 July
Tech2 News Staff •The weather delaying launch isn't expected to be severe or lasting, according to the ops team, which is confident of making the current launch window.