BEIJING, March 1 (UPI) -- China's first unmanned lunar probe reached the moon's surface Sunday, completing its 16-month mission, Chinese sources said.
BANGALORE, India, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Chandrayaan-1 launched and landed its lunar probe Friday admitting India to the select group of countries that have put their hardware on the moon.
BANGALORE, India, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The Indian Space Research Organization said India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has reached its final operational orbit around the moon.
BEIJING, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- China has launched a satellite toward lunar orbit, the first step in its goal toward sending its own astronauts into space.
DULUTH, Minn., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Japanese space agency officials said Friday that the craft they've nicknamed Kaguya successfully entered orbit around the moon.
BREMEN, Germany, March 15 (UPI) -- German scientists say they want to stake a claim as scientific innovators by sending a lunar probe to chart the surface of the moon.
BEIJING, March 9 (UPI) -- A Chinese space expert said China is unlikely to catch up with the United States in space technology within a decade, contradicting an earlier assessment. Luan Enjie, commander in chief of the country's lunar probe program, followed an optimistic forecast
DARMSTADT, Germany, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The European SMART-1 probe has arrived at the moon, two months earlier than expected, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- China has completed research and development on its first lunar satellite, scheduled for launch in 2006.
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- China said its first unmanned orbiter spacecraft is expected to take off within three years, chief lunar exploration scientists confirmed.
