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Australian-Backed SPIDER Payload to Fly on Firefly's 2026 Lunar Mission
Nov 09, 2023 (SPX)
This collaboration marks a significant step in international lunar exploration efforts. The SPIDER payload, under the auspices of the Australian Space Agency's ...
Propelling NASA closer to the Moon and Mars with Open Innovation
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
In addition to these partnerships, NASA also invites the national and global community to participate in Moon to Mars planning through open innovation initiativ...
Deploying and demonstrating navigation aids on the lunar surface
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
Lunar Node 1 (LN-1) is an S-band navigation beacon for lunar applications that was recently designed and built at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). As part o...
NASA seeks input for future lunar surface resource utilization demo
Nov 07, 2023 (SPX)
As a sustained presence grows at the Moon, opportunities to harvest lunar resources could lead to safer, more efficient operations with less dependence on Earth...
Five-Year Deal for Sidus Space in Support of Lunar Operations
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
Within the scope of this new agreement, Sidus Space is tasked with the provision of an array of services crucial for the execution of lunar transportation, infr...
NASA welcomes Netherlands as newest Artemis Accords signatory
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and the following also were in attendance: Chirag Parikh, executive secretary of the U.S. National Space Council and Birgit...
Heterogeneity of Earth's mantle may be relics of Moon formation
Nov 02, 2023 (SPX)
This research offers important new insights not only into Earth's internal structure but also its long-term evolution and the formation of the inner solar syste...
Crystals brought back by astronauts show that the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
"These crystals are the oldest known solids that formed after the giant impact. And because we know how old these crystals are, they serve as an anchor for the ...
European Service Module for Artemis II connected to Orion vehicle
Oct 30, 2023 (ESA)
Just over two years ago, on 14 October 2021, the second European Service Module (ESM-2) arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians have been busy p...
NASA supports tests of dust sensor to aid lunar landings
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
When spacecraft land on the Moon or Mars, the rocket exhaust plume creates regolith ejecta - abrasive dust and large particles moving at high speeds - that can ...
Next generation Moon camera tested in Europe
Oct 26, 2023 (ESA)
The engineers behind the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) worked with ESA in the lunar-like landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain, to put the new camera through ...
CADRE rover getting prepped for testing
Oct 26, 2023 (JPL)
Slated to arrive at the Moon in spring 2024 as part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, CADRE is designed to demonstrate that multipl...
ACT's Thermal Management System will help VIPER Rover survive long lunar nights
Oct 25, 2023 (SPX)
The primary task assigned to ACT was ensuring VIPER's ability to "Survive Lunar Night"-a challenge that involves prolonged periods of darkness, with temperature...
The Moon is 40 million years older than previously thought
Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)
Led by researchers at the Field Museum and the University of Glasgow, the study was made possible by Northwestern University's atom-probe tomography facility, w...
How could a piece of the Moon become a Near-Earth asteroid
Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)
The research team details their findings in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment. Kamo`oalewa has been the object of sev...
Texas A and M joins multimillion-dollar moon orbit tracking project
Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)
"The SURI is an outstanding initiative to train our next-generation workforce. We look forward to carrying out creative research aimed at addressing astronautic...
TRIDENT drill integrated into VIPER lunar rover
Oct 19, 2023 (SPX)
TRIDENT is the last of four science instruments to be delivered to the clean room where VIPER is under construction. The other three instruments-MSOLO (Mass Spe...
India plans manned Moon mission, space station
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
The premier's announcement comes as the world's most populous country readies for a key test flight due Saturday for its first crewed space mission. Modi told s...
How to make roads on the Moon
Oct 13, 2023 (ESA)
With civilisation comes roads, and that is going to be especially true on the Moon, just to keep the dust away. Lunar dust is ultra-fine, abrasive and clingy. I...
Work starts on telescope to assist lunar missions
Oct 13, 2023 (XNA)
Developed by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the optical instrument is designed to be a large, fully movable, high-pre...
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