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Scheduled to launch on ispace's M2 mission, the Indian CubeSat will ride aboard the lander Resilience, aiming to orbit the Moon and conduct critical technology testing. This mission signifies a ...

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Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

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Each orbit will get longer until it can then get close enough to the moon to pivot to an orbit around it. Blue Ghost will spend four days in transit to the moon and then 16 days in actual orbit.

As 2025 begins, so comes the first full moon of the year ... C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), was discovered in April 2024 and has an orbit that spans around 160,000 years, according to the Planetary Society.