April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
... It is well over half a century since the last vehicle (LRV-3) was driven on the Moon, but if NASA’s Artemis programme is successful we could see another ‘Moon car’ on the lunar surface in the next decade. On the other hand...
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...
23 October 2020
First 4G cellular network on the Moon to be built by Nokia
... $370 million innovations development award offered by the US space agency to help them forge ahead with their Artemis programme. “Nokia’s LTE network – the precursor to 5G – is ideally suited for providing wireless connectivity for any activity that...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...’ for the 2020s. Indeed, competition from China might be just what is required to ensure the success of NASA’s Artemis programme, before the end of the decade. Not since the 1960s has such a national impetus existed to race...
