India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft experienced an unexpected extension in its lunar orbit due to a gravitational interaction ...
The far side of the moon and distant Earth, imaged by the 2014 Chang’e-5 T1 mission service module. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China’s Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite ...
The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published in ...
On 11 November at 10:30 UTC, close to the 331st apogee, SMART-1 will be in the middle of a “weak stability boundary”. In this region the spacecraft is neither in an Earth-bound orbit, nor a Moon-bound ...
Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module's orbit changed after Moon flybys, as tracked by ISRO and noted by Jonathan McDowell.