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All our spacecraft parameters are normal, including the power generation and in the propulsion modules and lander module,” Veeramuthuvel said.
An uncrewed robotic moon lander, operated by India’s space agency and known as the Chandrayaan-3, will attempt to touch down on the moon’s south polar region at around 8:34 a.m. ET Wednesday.
A returning spacecraft, and that too from the surface of the Moon and not just from space, adds several newer levels of complexity to a lander and rover mission.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander at the company’s facility on the North Side.
Source: https://triblive.com/local/no-christmas-eve-launch-for-astrobotic-lunar-lander/
At 230 degrees below zero, it’s also a challenge for any robot lander to survive.
Besides their relationship on software for the lander, ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is designing a lander for a Draper-led lander mission for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Source: https://spacenews.com/software-problem-blamed-for-ispace-lunar-lander-crash/
Besides their relationship on software for the lander, ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is designing a lander for a Draper-led lander mission for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Source: https://spacenews.com/software-problem-blamed-for-ispace-lunar-lander-crash/
Besides their relationship on software for the lander, ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is designing a lander for a Draper-led lander mission for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Source: https://spacenews.com/software-problem-blamed-for-ispace-lunar-lander-crash/
Blue Origin and its partners will develop and fly both a lunar lander that can make precision landings anywhere on the Moon's surface and a cislunar transporter.
Source: https://hothardware.com/news/blue-origin-scores-nasa-lunar-lander-contract
Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the point where the Vikram lander touched down on the lunar surface would be named “Shiv Shakti”.
Employees of "ispace" react after the company announced they lost signal from the lander in HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program on the Moon at a venue to watch its landing in Tokyo, Japan, April 26, 2023.
Engineers monitoring the fuel gauge noticed that as the tank approached empty, the lander picked up speed as it descended and communication was then lost, according to ispace.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-japanese-company-high-probability-lander.html
Four more lunar missions are planned for 2023, including a Japanese lunar lander and a commercial spacecraft by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/we-re-not-racing-to-the-moon-we-re-making-it-home-1850812126
However, the signal from the lander cut out at the last minute.
Incidentally, the Chandrayaan-2 payload also weighed about 3.8 ton with the orbiter weighing 2,379 kg, the Vikram lander 1,444 kg, including the Pragyan rover 27 kg.
Source: https://southasiandaily.com/indias-bahubali-rocket-lvm3-puts-chandrayaan-3-spacecraft-in-orbit/
Israel's SpaceIL tried unsuccessfully to put a private lander on the Moon.
Last month, the ISRO successfully landed the Vikram lander near the south pole of the Moon.
Mission 3's lander will carry payloads to the surface and also deploy two communications satellites in lunar orbit, ispace said.
“Rover ramped down the lander and India took a walk on the moon!” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday.
Source: https://mg.co.za/world/2023-08-24-indian-rover-begins-exploring-moons-south-pole/
Russian moon mission ends in disaster as lander has ‘ceased to exist’