Japan Unveils New Rocket
18-Feb-09
Nestled in a cavernous but air-tight hangar, scientists are putting the finishing touches to Japan’s H-2B rocket, hoping it will boost the country’s prestige when it blasts off later this year.
Indians achieve Lunar Orbit
01-Jan-09
INDIA has become what it says is 5th to put a spacecraft into Lunar Orbit. (It’s the fifth individual nation, after the US, the Former Soviet Union, Japan, and China. The European Space Agency, a consortium of 17 18 nations, has also succeeded in the endeavor).
Chandrayaan-1 Success Makes India Fifth to Reach Lunar Orbit
I’ve put up some Chandrayaan-1 information.
(Also updated: there are 18 member nations in ESA, and we congratulate the Czeck Republic on their admittance in 11/08).