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NASA's new Moon rocket to launch as soon as August 29
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
Artemis-1 is the first in a series of missions as the United States seeks to return humans to the Moon, build a sustained presence there, and use the lessons ga...
Wideband Lens for Lunar Rover microscope
Jul 20, 2022 (SPX)
Due for delivery and launch in 2024 - a new solar powered land rover - 'Lunar Vertex' will explore the Reiner Gamma swirl, one of the most distinctive natural f...
NASA defers CLPS delivery of VIPER to 2024 to reduce risk
Jul 20, 2022 (SPX)
Through CLPS, NASA contracted Astrobotic of Pittsburgh to deliver the agency's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar surface in s...
Advanced Navigation sets sight to be the first Australian company to reach the Moon
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
"The team is absolutely thrilled to see years of research in development progress into successful technology. We look forward to being the first Australian comp...
NASA Mirrors on ESA Pathfinder to Empower Space Geodesy
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
Geodesy is the scientific discipline that seeks to map Earth's shape, orientation, and gravity field. Space geodesy uses satellite instrument and observations o...
Porosity of the moon's crust reveals bombardment history
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
Now MIT scientists have found that the porosity of the moon's crust, reaching well beneath the surface, can reveal a great deal about the moon's history of bomb...
Chinese scientists help solve riddle of Moon's largest crater
Jul 10, 2022 (XNA)
The study was conducted by a Chinese research team studying planetary sciences at Shandong University, and was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. I...
Can China claim ownership rights on the Moon
Jul 10, 2022 (The Conversation)
This spat between the administrator of NASA and Chinese government officials comes at a time when both nations are actively working on missions to the Moon - an...
Follow CAPSTONE's Four-Month Journey to the Moon in Real Time
Jul 10, 2022 (SPX)
During the next four months, CAPSTONE - short for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment - will rack up seri...
Experts find way to make better use of lunar samples
Jul 10, 2022 (XNA)
Professor Wang Zaicong, a senior researcher at the School of Earth Sciences of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, Hubei province, said his team recei...
Meet NASA's Orion Spacecraft
Jul 08, 2022 (SPX)
An uncrewed Orion will be tested on Artemis I and travel 40,000 miles past the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has gone before. This mission ...
NASA's CAPSTONE Pulls Off First Targeting Maneuver on Journey to the Moon
Jul 08, 2022 (SPX)
CAPSTONE is now about 289,000 miles from Earth, beyond the orbit of the Moon. CAPSTONE will loop back around and arrive to its lunar orbit - called a near recti...
China's Chang'e 4 probe completes work for 44th lunar day
Jul 07, 2022 (XNA)
The lander was switched to dormant mode at 6:00 am Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2, at 7:14 pm Tuesday, according to the Lunar Exploration and S...
Update on CAPSTONE communications issue
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
The spacecraft team currently is working to understand the cause and re-establish contact. The team has good trajectory data for the spacecraft based on the fir...
Earth orbit, Moon, Mars: ESA's ambitious roadmap
Jul 06, 2022 (ESA)
Called Terrae Novae 2030+ (Latin for new worlds), the document lays the groundwork for Europe to ensure its leading role in space exploration for future prosper...
Rocket Lab Moon Mission for NASA a Success
Jul 04, 2022 (SPX)
Owned and operated by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) wi...
Robotics team practises lunar exploration on Mount Etna
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
These complete the Helmholtz Future Project Autonomous Robotic Networks to Help Modern Societies (ARCHES). The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Lu...
Rover The Moon
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
NASA recently selected Kevin Lewis, an associate professor in the Krieger School's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences who has also worked on missions on...
CAPSTONE Uses Gravity on Unusual, Efficient Route to the Moon
Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)
The destination for CAPSTONE - short for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment - is a unique lunar orbit in...
Lunar science stirring on Mount Etna
Jun 24, 2022 (ESA)
The project - named the ARCHES Space-Analog Demonstration - is a multi-agency, multi-robot event brought to life by the German Aerospace Center DLR, and featuri...
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