India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands Successfully on the Moon
India’s third lunar mission, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3, successfully landed in the vicinity of the moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023, at 6:04 pm IST.
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SpaceX Crew Dragon to Launch Four to ISS but Valve Issues Remain
SpaceX is preparing to launch its seventh crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2023, using its Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance. The mission, called Crew-7, will carry four astronauts from four different nations: NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA’s Andreas Mogensen, JAXA’s Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos’ Konstantin Borisov (Russian Federation).
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Russia’s Luna-25 Crashes into Moon, India’s Chandrayaan-3 Up Next
Russia’s first attempt to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon since 1976 ended in failure on Saturday, when the Luna-25 probe lost control and collided with the lunar surface.
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German Air Force Retires A340 VIP Jets Over Reliability Issues
The German Air Force says it will retire its two Airbus A340-300 VIP transport aircraft ahead of schedule, following a series of technical problems that forced the cancellation of a foreign minister’s trip to the Asia-Pacific region.
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JetZero Wins $235M Blended Wing Body Contract from US Air Force
The US Air Force has awarded a $235 million contract to JetZero, a Long Beach-based aviation startup, to build and fly a full-scale technology demonstrator for a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft.
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Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 eVTOL Crashes During Flight Test
Vertical Aerospace, a UK-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, has confirmed that its VX4 was involved in an accident during a flight test at Cotswold Airport on August 9, 2023. The aircraft was remotely piloted (unoccupied) and there were no injuries, according to the company.
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