Archives for 22 October 2008
India shoots for the Moon
Published on 22 Oct 2008 at 10:40 am.
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India’s space agency, ISRO, has successfully launched that nation’s first payload beyond Earth orbit. That payload is the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. It will join China’s Chang’e 1 and Japan’s Kaguya (SELENE) spacecraft, which are already in orbit around the Moon. The United States is now planning to launch its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the spring of […]
