Let's try this again!
India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is on its way to the Moon, carrying a lander & small rover. If successful, the mission will make India the 4th nation to achieve a controlled lunar landing.
The previous Chandrayaan-2 mission put a satellite in lunar orbit but its lander crashed on the surface. https://spacenews.com/india-launches-chandrayaan-3-lunar-landing-mission/#space#science#ISRO
Blue Alchemist is one of my favorite Blue Origin programs.
They basically turn moon dust into solar cells, thus negating the need to transfer solar cells to the moon.
One of the few companies that's not just focusing on physically going to the moon!
Besides the cool space application, it could benefit terrestrial based solar panel production. They claim that their technology manufactures solar cells with zero carbon emissions, no water, and no toxic ingredients or other chemicals.
Europe's Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday, kicking off a first-ever mission to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.
After a month-long trip through space, Euclid will join the James Webb telescope at a stable hovering spot around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth called the second Lagrange Point.
I've seen a lot of pictures of Saturn, but there's something really magical about this new raw image from JWST.
Pixel noise + filter selection make the planet vanish -- just a set of rings floating in space. #space#science#NASA