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Japan's lunar mission: ISRO congratulates JAXA on successful launch of H-IIA rocket carrying lander SLIM to Moon.

Last month, India became the fourth nation to achieve a moon landing . Japan wants to be No. 5, and this week it launched a $100 million mission that it hopes will help it achieve...

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday it planned to launch its H-IIA rocket carrying a moon lander on Thursday morning, after unfavourable wind conditions led to a postponement last month. The rocket is scheduled to take off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 8:42 a.m. JST (Wednesday 2342 GMT), with a launch window open until Sept. 15, the company said. The new schedule was announced a week after the previous launch attempt, which would have carried Japan's first spacecraft to land on the moon, was su...

India's moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India's...

It was Russia's first mission to the moon in decades. Had Luna-25 successfully landed, it would've been the first craft on the lunar south pole region.