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Photograph of the landing site from the moon lander Odysseus. PR photo, from the Intuitive Machines website

The moon lander Odysseus will stop operating the day after tomorrow (Tuesday 5/3/2024) when darkness falls on its landing area on the side

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Odysseus landed on its side instead of landing at a vertical angle, which disrupted communication with Earth. Some of the antennas were blocked by the inverted spacecraft, and those that remained exposed were too close to the ground, leading to patchy communications.
The Indian lander Vircam as photographed from the Paragain robotic vehicle. Photo by the Indian Space Agency ISRO

Surprising presence of sulfur in the soil of the South Pole of the Moon by the Indian robotic vehicle Paragain in the Chandrayaan-3 mission

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The vehicle discovered a wide variety of heavy elements, but this is the first evidence of the presence of sulfur * The rover will tour the south pole of the moon for two weeks and look for signs of water ice
Simulation of the landing of the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the moon. Image: ISRO

India's Chandrayaan-3 Landing at the South Pole of the Moon - Space Policy Expert Explains the Context

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The fact that so many nations - the United States, Russia, China, India, Israel - and even commercial entities are interested in landing on the moon means that there are many opportunities to create new partnerships
Chandrayaan 3 mission logo. Courtesy of Indian Space Research Organization - ISRO

הכללית הודית צ'נאדריאאן 3 נחתה בשלום על היראח. שידור חי

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The spacecraft made history as the first to land on the south pole of the moon. India became only the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon
Blue Origin founder, tycoon Jeff Bezos, unveils the company's launch site at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida in a ceremony held in 2015, from which the new launcher New Glen will be launched.

Delivery service to the moon: Blue Origin offers to build a lander to deliver supplies to a manned base on the moon

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An illustration created using LRO altimeter data shows a possible appearance of Shackleton Crater at the moon's south pole.

LRO confirmed the possibility of ice in the Shackleton Crater at the south pole of the Moon

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