Tag Archives: Space Programme

• India loses contact with Moon lander on final descent 7 September 2019 | Manjunath Kiran and Bhuvan Bagga This post has no comments yet

  India's space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon. ...

• European spacecraft makes historic landing on comet 13 November 2014 | Maria Sheahan This post has no comments yet

  A European probe that landed on a comet in a first for space exploration is safely anchored on the surface despite technical problems, pictures beamed half a billion kilometres (300 million miles) back to Earth showed on Thursday. ...

• China makes ‘giant leap’ with Jade Rabbit moon rover landing 15 December 2013 | Felicia Sonmez This post has no comments yet

  China's Jade Rabbit rover vehicle drove onto the moon's surface on Sunday after the first lunar soft landing in nearly four decades, a huge advance in the country's ambitious space programme. ...

• China launches longest-ever manned space mission 12 June 2013 | Sebastien Berger This post has no comments yet

  China began its longest manned space mission yet Tuesday with the launch of the Shenzhou-10, as the country steps up an ambitious exploration programme symbolising its growing power. ...