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UAH to develop propulsion system to boost surveillance between Earth and Moon
Aug 09, 2023 (SPX)
"With the recent international push for lunar missions, the U.S. Space Force has emphasized the need for surveillance of the region beyond geosynchronous orbit,...
India's moon mission takes another big step
Aug 09, 2023 (XNA)
The Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, on Sunday completed the Lunar-Orbit Insertion to put the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the moon's orbit. The sp...
NASA may delay crewed lunar landing beyond Artemis 3 mission
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
Jim Free, the space agency's associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, told reporters in a briefing that certain key ...
Artemis II crew inspect Orion capsule with media in tow
Aug 08, 2023 (SPX)
Displayed inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are the Orion Crew Modules for Artemis II, ...
Russia to launch lunar mission Friday, first in nearly 50 years
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
Russian space agency Roscosmos said it had scheduled the launch of the Luna-25 lander for the early hours of Friday. With the lunar mission, Russia's first sinc...
Luna-25 to launch Friday, Russia's first moon mission in 50 years
Aug 07, 2023 (SPX)
The Russian space agency announced Monday that the Luna-25 lander, powered by a Soyuz rocket, is set for an August 11 launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Ru...
Indian lunar landing mission enters Moon's orbit
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
The world's most populous nation has a comparatively low-budget aerospace programme that is rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global space powers. Onl...
NASA's LunaH-Map mission ends, validates science instrument performance
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
The LunaH-Map CubeSat was designed to map ice deposits across the Moon's South Pole as part of NASA's SIMPLEx (Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Explorati...
Russia to launch first lunar station in nearly 50 years
Aug 03, 2023 (XNA)
According to Russia's RIA Novosti, the launch date is set for Aug 11 when the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the automatic station will lift ...
NASA's trio of mini rovers will team up to explore the Moon
Aug 03, 2023 (JPL)
NASA is sending a trio of miniature rovers to the Moon to see how well they can cooperate with one another without direct input from mission controllers back on...
NASA Selects Intuitive Machines Team to Develop Survive the Lunar Night Technology
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
Intuitive Machines has been designated approximately $2.4 million of the award to assist Zeno Power in developing an interoperable americium-241 (Am-241) radioi...
NASA Partners with American Companies on Key Moon, Exploration Tech
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
"Partnering with the commercial space industry lets us at NASA harness the strength of American innovation and ingenuity," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. ...
NASA Completes First Launch Simulation for Artemis II Moon Mission
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
As NASA teams prepare to send the crew of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and bring them back safely, they will participate in a wide range of simu...
Argentina joins NASA's Artemis Accords
Jul 27, 2023 (UPI)
Daniel Filmus, minster of science, technology and innovation for the South American nation, signed the agreement Thursday at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires as ...
NASA partners with 11 companies for space technology to assist Artemis moon mission
Jul 25, 2023 (UPI)
"The technologies range from lunar surface power systems to tools for in-space 3D printing, which will expand industry capabilities for a sustained human presen...
China develops new carrier rocket, spacecraft for moon landing
Jul 21, 2023 (XNA)
The new carrier rocket Long March-10 is mainly developed for the purpose of sending spacecraft and moon lander into the Earth-moon transfer orbit, said Rong Yi,...
Lunar encore
Jul 20, 2023 (ESA)
The frame shows the Orion spacecraft on the left with one solar wing extending from the European Service Module to the right, dividing Earth (above) and the Moo...
NASA selects SwRI to lead DIMPLE lunar lander/rover instrument suite
Jul 20, 2023 (SPX)
"I am thrilled for the opportunity to send DIMPLE to the Moon to better understand the age and composition of Ina," said SwRI Staff Scientist Dr. F. Scott Ander...
China to carry out scientific exploration during manned lunar mission
Jul 18, 2023 (XNA)
To make full use of the mission's resources and promote lunar exploration and scientific research, the lunar lander will carry scientific payload for relevant e...
India launches Chandrayaan-3 mission on path toward moon landing
Jul 14, 2023 (UPI)
The Mark-3 rocket with Chandrayaan-3 on top blasted off shortly after 5 a.m. EDT from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the coastal island of Sriharikota. "Chan...
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