October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... civil exploration and use of outer space. International space agencies that join NASA in the Artemis programme will do so by executing bilateral Artemis Accords, which will describe a “shared vision for principles, grounded in the Outer Space Treaty...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment), which will aid NASA’s Artemis programme, is being overseen by Advanced Space LLC, a leading commercial space solutions company. Launching on an Electron rocket...
15 June 2022
NASA counts on ESA cooperation for lunar exploration
... press conference that NASA was “counting on cooperation with ESA” to propel exploration of the Moon through the Artemis programme. “The European Service Module is the powerhouse of the Orion spacecraft, providing our astronauts with in-space...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... most of the trapped volatiles in the lunar soils over time The even better news is that NASA’s Artemis programme to return humans to the Moon by 2024, and the robotic precursor missions that will precede it, will eventually...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
.... Those future agreements will describe legal provisions and lay out each country's specific contribution to the Artemis programme. In effect, the newly signed Accords will "establish norms of behavior and rules for space operations," Bridenstine...
01 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... newly built engines of the same design. SLS rockets amounted to $27.3 billion in projected costs to the Artemis programme through 2025, according to an estimate released by NASA’s OIG in February 2021. Auditors have repeatedly questioned management...
