12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
...spacecraft dubbed Ebb and Flow that launched in 2011 and orbited the Moon for nearly a year. Flying in tandem,...combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
...first coordinated manoeuvre between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit. "Demonstrations such as this will help advance technologies...more extended use of small spacecraft in and beyond Earth-orbit," said Roger Hunter, program manager of the Small ...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
...Russia wants to collaborate on NASA's plan for a Moon-orbiting space station known as the Lunar Gateway but needs to... about the ramifications. "If we are going to stay in low Earth orbit, then ISS is the most efficient way to do this," he said.
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... decade later, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Venus Express orbiter took up the mantle by measuring the amount of infrared light ... both India and Russia with their Shukrayaan-1 orbiter and Venera-D spacecraft, respectively, are also currently ...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
...both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight... theoretical models and data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the team estimate how much water could be ...
29 June 2018
mu Space issues proposal request to build a satellite covering Asia-Pacific
... with coverage spanning across Asia-Pacific. The high throughput satellite will be on a geostationary orbit (GEO) location at 50.5-degree East, an orbital slot secured on a recent agreement between mu Space and SES, the world’s leading satellite...
