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Moon becomes little more out of reach for NASA's VIPER rover
May 07, 2025 (UPI)
VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover, is supposed to study the extreme environment of the moon's south in search of ice and othe...
NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing
May 06, 2025 (SPX)
NASA Kennedy researchers in the Exploration Research and Technology programs teamed up with Lunar Resources Inc. (LUNAR), a space industrial company in Houston,...
Moon RACER achieves autonomous navigation milestone on lunar terrain vehicle
May 05, 2025 (SPX)
The achievement comes just over a year after the Moon RACER team received NASA's Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) feasibility assessment contract. This rec...
Van Hoeydonck, first artist to exhibit on Moon, dies
May 03, 2025 (AFP)
Born on October 8, 1925, Van Hoeydonck was a prolific artist whose works spanned sculpture, painting, drawing, collage and graphic design. He is best known for ...
Lockheed Martin completes Orion spacecraft for crewed Artemis II lunar mission
May 02, 2025 (SPX)
Designed for deep space exploration, Orion is NASA's most advanced human-rated spacecraft. As the program's prime contractor, Lockheed Martin produced the crew ...
NASA moon instrument to return for subsurface volatile survey
Apr 30, 2025 (SPX)
Following its successful performance during the Intuitive Machines 2 mission, MSOLO has proven its capability to operate in lunar conditions. The upgraded missi...
NASA tests hybrid rocket motor to improve safe lunar landings
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
To better predict these effects, a team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has fired a 14-inch hybrid rocket motor more than 30 time...
Lunar Gateway Module Reaches Final Assembly Phase for Artemis Missions
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
Designed to support Artemis astronauts, HALO will offer vital living quarters, research facilities, and workspace. The module will feature critical systems for ...
China shares moon rocks with U.S.and 5 other nations
Apr 25, 2025 (UPI)
China National Space Administration's Shan Zhongde told local Chinese media the moon rocks are "a shared treasure for all humanity." The United States does not ...
Innovative methods refine search for lunar ice
Apr 24, 2025 (SPX)
Surface scouting with ShadowCam Shuai Li, an assistant researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the UH Manoa School of Ocean ...
China selects global payloads and opens lunar samples to foreign scientists
Apr 24, 2025 (SPX)
Among the selected projects are a multifunctional robot created by teams from two Hong Kong universities, a smart lunar rover developed by Middle East Technical...
Current hurdles and technological roadmap for processing lunar hyperspectral orbiter data
Apr 23, 2025 (SPX)
A recent review published in the Journal of Geo-information Science by Dr. ZHANG Peng, Dr. LIU Wanyue, and colleagues from the Technology and Engineering Center...
China deploys three-satellite system in Earth-Moon retrograde orbit
Apr 22, 2025 (SPX)
The trio now orbiting in DRO comprises two spacecraft, DRO-A and DRO-B, launched in March last year, and a third, previously deployed satellite designated DRO-L...
Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
Apr 16, 2025 (SPX)
Now, in the most realistic lab simulation of this process yet, NASA-led researchers have confirmed this prediction. The finding, researchers wrote in a March 17...
Voyager unveils dust-resistant coating tested on lunar surface
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
"The number of surfaces on Earth that are coated by dust daily, affecting performance and visibility, is astronomical, everything from windows to aircraft turbi...
Surviving lunar night with radioisotope energy
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
Surviving the lunar night has been identified by NASA as one of the primary technological obstacles for establishing a long-term presence on the Moon. With surf...
Drier far side of the Moon deepens understanding of lunar evolution
Apr 14, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature, the study was led by Professor Hu Sen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geology and Geophysics. "Even the driest desert on E...
Chinese study reveals lower water content in lunar farside mantle
Apr 14, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature, the team's findings reveal that the mantle source of the CE6 mare basalts contains only 1 to 1.5 micrograms of water per gram. This is subs...
Differences in lunar space weathering revealed by farside samples
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
Under Dr. Xian's supervision, graduate researcher Lin Jiarui performed detailed scanning electron microscopy (SEM) at the institute's Electron Microscopy Center...
Redwire and ispace-US forge partnership to pursue lunar mission contracts
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
This collaboration aims to target opportunities under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, a program designed to foster a lunar economy t...
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