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Getting ready for lunar orbit
Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)
As the name implies, the Gateway will be located within the Moon's orbit and is being built by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of ESA. Among its components is the...
China's Chang'e-4 discovers glass globules on far side of moon
Feb 20, 2022 (XNA)
According to a study published in Science Bulletin, the Yutu-2 rover captured images of two translucent globules using its panoramic camera. No composition data...
China's moon sample updates lunar chronology model
Feb 16, 2022 (SPX)
The research is based on the radiometric age of new samples collected by China's Chang'E-5 from the Moon along with crater counting in the landing area. The stu...
Moon should be privatised to end global poverty says 'Space Invaders' report
Feb 15, 2022 (Sputnik)
Researchers from the Adam Smith Institute, a British neoliberal think tank, have suggested that dividing the Moon into regions and privatising it can help end g...
Preventing Lunar traffic jams
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
In advance, scientists are launching satellites and other payloads to orbit the moon. But so far, no one has kept track of just how many artificial objects are ...
Advanced Space, USAF sign deal to collaborate on Cislunar Activities
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
Advanced Space owns and operates the CAPSTONE mission going to the Moon in the early part of 2022. CAPSTONE, Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology O...
SwRI scientists help determine comet delivery to Moon
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
The SwRI-led LAMP (Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project) instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had a bird's eye view when its launch vehicle's spen...
Chandrayaan-3 scheduled for launch in August 2022, Lok Sabha told
Feb 04, 2022 (IANS)
"Based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realisation of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Many related har...
Uncrewed Artemis I mission to Moon pushed back
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
The Artemis I launch, initially scheduled for late 2021 and then postponed twice more, will now happen no earlier than April. "Teams are taking operations a ste...
NASA's HERMES mission passes key milestone, moves toward launch
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
The review, Key Decision Point C, evaluated the mission's preliminary design and program plan to achieve launch by its target launch readiness date no earlier t...
Israel Signs Artemis Accords
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
"Israel already has demonstrated its commitment to Artemis with the contribution of the AstroRad radiation protection vest on Artemis I, scheduled to launch thi...
A VIPER in the Sand
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
The latest prototype of the rover, known as Moon Gravitation Representative Unit 3, or MGRU3, has the same wheel design and base size as the rover that will go ...
Warpspace wins JAXA contract to design Optical Cislunar Communication Architecture for Lunar mission
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
Through this network, earth observation satellites can downlink their data at a high data rate in near real-time 24/7. Today, numerous national organizations an...
Chinese lunar rover's 2-year travelogue on moon's far side reported
Jan 21, 2022 (XNA)
The study published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal, Science Robotics, described cloddy soil, gel-like rocks, and fresh small craters inside the Von Ka...
MDA awarded contract for lunar landing sensors
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
"Momentum is building as governments and private sector organizations work hand in glove on a shared mission that will take us back towards the Moon and beyond,...
'Slushy' magma ocean led to formation of the Moon's crust
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale superieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation, where crystals remained...
Researchers propose new explanation for Moon's half-century magnetic mystery
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Now, research led by a Brown University geoscientist proposes a new explanation for the Moon's magnetic mystery. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, shows...
Under a moon spell: Shark attacks related to lunar phases
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
What makes this research important is the abundance of data the researchers analyzed. Their findings are based on a global shark attack record collected during ...
Chang'E-5 Lander Makes First Onsite Detection of Water on Moon
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers from the National Space Science Center of CAS, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS and Nanjing Un...
Airbus to develop the Power Management and Distribution System for key Lunar Gateway module
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
Airbus Crisa is a Spanish company founded in 1985 to design and manufacture electronic equipment and software for space applications, and engineering projects f...
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