October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... the properties of these intriguing objects. In 2021, we expect the first uncrewed test flight for NASA’s Artemis programme, Artemis-1, to be launched. Furthermore, several robotic missions to explore the Moon are scheduled in the framework of NASA...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
.... We know about the ice-bearing, permanently shadowed regions of the lunar poles that US officials promoting the Artemis programme have said they covet as a source of air to breathe and fuel for propulsion. As scientists go to work on their samples...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... Parker. “As we prepare for the next generation of European astronauts who will join their NASA colleagues in the Artemis programme, this research is of vital importance and shows how science and exploration go hand-in-hand as we move forward to the...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... strategy”. An artist’s impression showing the full configuration of NASA’s lunar gateway. In the coming years, as part of the Artemis programme [see box on page 89], NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon and create a scientific base on the Moon...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... their rover land near the Moon’s south pole carrying with it 4G communications equipment for NASA’s Artemis programme. Carried to their destination by Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, Lunar Outpost’s M1 Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP...
02 October 2020
Nasa funds ICON to develop a 3D construction system for the moon
... history and will push science, engineering, technology, and architecture to literal new heights.” The US space agency’s Artemis programme is not just about landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 – they also...
