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PowerLight Technologies Joins Forces with Blue Origin for DARPA's LunA-10 Lunar Power Project
Jan 25, 2024 (SPX)
The space industry, having reached a market value of $469 billion in 2021, is poised for further growth with projections surpassing $634 billion by 2026. PowerL...
NASA unveils progress in Moon to Mars Strategy
Jan 24, 2024 (SPX)
The 2023 Moon to Mars review, a comprehensive process incorporating insights from U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and NASA's own workforce, has...
China sets sights on Lunar South Pole with Chang'e 7 Mission
Jan 24, 2024 (SPX)
Slated for launch around 2026, the Chang'e 7 mission represents a new chapter in China's lunar exploration endeavors. The mission's objectives extend beyond mer...
China hopes Chang'e 6 can return samples from Lunar Far Side
Jan 23, 2024 (SPX)
The Chang'e 6 spacecraft, a complex assembly comprising an orbiter, lander, ascender, and re-entry module, is tasked with a mission that Hu Hao, a senior planne...
Aqualunar Challenge Launches: UK-Canada Initiative for Lunar Water Purification
Jan 23, 2024 (SPX)
The Aqualunar Challenge, funded by the UK Space Agency's International Bilateral Fund and managed by Challenge Works, is specifically designed to support UK-led...
Japan says 'possibility' Moon lander power can be restored
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
With its unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission -- dubbed "Moon Sniper" for the craft's precision landing capabilities -- Japan became the ...
NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes
Jan 21, 2024 (SPX)
Astrobotic was the first commercial vendor to launch a mission to the Moon as part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, which aims to ...
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' lands but power running low
Jan 20, 2024 (AFP)
After a nail-biting 20-minute descent, space agency JAXA said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had touched down and communication had been establi...
Japan 'Moon Sniper' lands but 'not generating power'
Jan 20, 2024 (AFP)
After a nail-biting 20-minute descent, space agency JAXA said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had touched down and communication had been establi...
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' set for historic lunar landing
Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)
With its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, Japan wants to become the fifth nation to pull off a fiendishly tricky soft landing on the Moon's r...
US space company upbeat on next Moon mission despite lander's demise
Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)
"I am more confident than ever now that our next mission will be successful and land on the surface of the Moon," Astrobotic CEO John Thornton told a news confe...
Moon rocks with unique dust found
Jan 19, 2024 (SPX)
The scientists' most important finding is that only very few boulders on the Moon have a layer of dust with very special reflective properties. For example, the...
US spaceship lost over S. Pacific following failed Moon mission
Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)
Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on January 8 under an experimental new partnership between NASA and private industry intended to reduce costs for Ame...
To the Moon and back: modern lunar exploration
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
It is a feat so far only achieved by four nations -- the United States, the Soviet Union, China and most recently India -- with spacecraft often losing communic...
Failed Peregrine Lunar mission concludes with a Free Return to Earth for disposal
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
The Peregrine lander, carrying a suite of NASA science and technology instruments, safely reentered Earth's atmosphere over a remote area of the South Pacific. ...
Discovery changes understanding of water's history on the Moon
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
Working with a meteorite she classified as one that came from the Moon while a graduate student at The Open University (U.K.), Tara Hayden identified, for the f...
High hopes for Japan's 'Moon Sniper' mission
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
With its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, Japan wants to become the fifth nation to pull off a fiendishly tricky soft landing on the rocky su...
Moon age daydream: modern lunar exploration
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
It is a feat so far only achieved by four nations -- the United States, the Soviet Union, China and most recently India -- with spacecraft often losing communic...
Research sheds new light on Moon rock formation solving major puzzle in lunar geology
Jan 16, 2024 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Geoscience, reveals a key step in the genesis of these distinctive magmas. A combination of high temperature laboratory experimen...
Doomed US lunar lander's space odyssey continues...for now
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
A private US lunar lander that's been hemorrhaging fuel since an onboard explosion at the start of its journey is somehow still chugging along, snapping selfies...
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