22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... today (Tuesday) that his space company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking to several thousand delegates Bezos, who received a standing...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... for astronauts heading to the Moon and a key element of NASA's Artemis program – could be 'repurposed’ under the new bill. Instead of ...Upper Stage, or EUS. While other aspects of the Artemis mission might be facing cut-backs or redundancy, both ...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... Element, is set to launch on the second Artemis mission and will host two external scientific investigations. ESA...of European astronauts who will join their NASA colleagues in the Artemis programme, this research is of vital importance and shows how ...
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...
23 October 2020
First 4G cellular network on the Moon to be built by Nokia
... of a $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...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... this year, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back on a mission that came to be known as Artemis 1, followed later by a crewed mission to lunar orbit, and culminating in a human landing on the Moon’s surface in 2024 — famously...
