It was a whirlwind weekend in space. Over just 48 hours, rockets roared off launchpads across the globe and bold new missions were unveiled. SpaceX pulled off back-to-back Falcon 9 launches to expand its Starlink internet constellation, while astronauts from three nations arrived in Florida to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station.…
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission (launched July 2023) achieved a historic soft landing near the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023 space.com. Its primary objectives were to demonstrate safe, precise landing and a mobile rover to conduct in‑situ science on the lunar surface isro.gov.in. The mission carried a lander (Vikram) and a six-wheeled rover (Pragyan) equipped with instruments…
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