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I have already talked about this at the Chandrayaan-2 thread. The gist is that Chandrayaan-3 is a repeat of the landing part of Chandrayaan-2 and a demonstration of India's space capability. I'm very excited about this.

IMHO two Progress spacecraft docked at Prichal and Rassvet combined have twice the ∆v than a single Progress spacecraft docked at Zvezda.

While the ISS has no plans to be sold to a private company, some of its components (especially the Leonardo PMM) will be used to form a private space station operated by Axiom Space, as shown in an animation.

Seems sad, but it is the only way to get rid of ye olde space statione.

It has something to do more with the racial similarities (most Taiwanese people are of mainland Chinese origin) than the geographical size between mainland China and Taiwan.

While going through the recent ISS exterior images, I saw an amazing high-quality picture of the complete ISS that unfortunately has a damaged radiator at the S1 truss. Has this damage happened last year? Or is it a permanent damage from the Shuttle days? S1 Radiator in 2021 (during Crew-2)...

Yes, the official name of Taiwan is the Republic of China (ROC) (not to be confused with the People's Republic of China (PRC), the modern mainland China), as its government is the same government that once ruled mainland China from 1912 till 1949 when the ROC was defeated by Mao's party during...

The Gaganyaan program (from Sanskrit gagan (sky) + yāna (craft)) is an Indian attempt to sent Indians into space using indigenous technology. Until today, Indians (and other people of Indian descent) have gone to space using foreign spacecraft. The first unmanned mission of Gaganyaan is...

I have heard that Pak is a chief guest of this Winter Olympics, and I can't say its possible reason here as it is not the Basement. Anyway, India has not boycotted the Winter Olympics (yet) and I hope for the Indians to get medals out of this.

In order to avoid necroposting here, please discuss later Chandrayaan missions at Chandrayaan-2 mission news.

We should resume the development of the Chandrayaan-2 add-on to simulate both the partially successful Chandrayaan-2 and the planned Chandrayaan-3.

You are confusing the planned Chandrayaan-3 mission with the proposed Lunar Polar Exploration Mission. Chandrayaan-3 will be launching this year on a GSLV rocket made by India, and it is the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission that would be launched with a Japanese rocket. Chandrayaan-3 will be yet...

@Galactic Penguin SST, :welcome: to Orbiter-Forum! I had seen you in Wikipedia back in 2019 when I was dealing with various spaceflight-related articles there. Now I am blocked in English Wikipedia for more than a year since January 2021, and I have maximised my focus in Orbiter since then.

Thanks to point it out. Turns out the SLC-36 is the merger of the former LC-36A, LC-36B and LC-11.

Blue Origin is doing a lot of things behind the scenes, so you can't well speculate whether New Glenn will delay further or not. Anyway, the Space Launch Complex 36 in 2022 is actually larger than the Launch Complex 36 in 1964, and in fact, the SLC-36 is a merger of the former LC-11 and LC-36...

The Indo-Russian joint lunar exploration makes more sense than the Sino-Russian one, as India and Russia have very warm relations since the 50s, and India relied on the Soviet technology to launch its satellites and its first cosmonaut at the early stages of Indian space program. Update...

Hmm, I thought the production of Soyuz TMA is stopped in favor of Soyuz MS back in 2016.

Since I don't know much Russkiy, I can't understand the two-turn circuit of Soyuz. So I want to ask, how the Soyuz-2 upper stage would be able to send the spacecraft to the Moon? I thought it would require a rocket like Energia for Russia to do so, and recently there had been some talks to...

Although I might understand this, I can't explain this well. And I won't do this for now as I have been busy in recent months.

IDK but the progress for the ALPACA lander is stalled as NASA has chosen Starship as the Artemis lander.