After flying for 24 minutes, the rocket sent the relay satellite directly into the planned Earth-moon transfer orbit with a ...

A sideways and off-target landing has brought Intuitive Machines’ lunar mission to an early end — the second such mishap for ...

Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to reach the moon’s surface—“Athena”—has powered off after landing sideways on the ...

A Chinese Long March 4C has launched the Queqiao spacecraft – a relay satellite for the upcoming Chang’e-4 lunar mission. Launch occurred from the LC-3 pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch ...

The combination of the relay satellite Queqiao-2 and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket has been vertically transferred to the launching area at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's ...

Queqiao-2 will take over from the ageing Queqiao-1, launched in 2018. Queqiao-1, which is a third as massive as Queqiao-2, was the first relay satellite deployed to the far side of the moon, ...

The satellite provides for a data exchange between the Russian segment of the International Space Station and Russia’s Flight Control Center MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. The Luch-5X relay satellite ...