22 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...landing site are unlike those returned by the Apollo and Luna sample return missions. Since the termination of these two ...constituent of the basalts returned from both the Apollo and Luna missions is titanium. The rocks returned via these two missions...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
...Chang'e 7" lunar polar exploration mission and Roscosmos’ Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft. The two space agencies also committed ... their space programme. Despite preparing to launch its Luna 25 and Luna 27 lunar lander missions before the end of the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... Moon is also a destination for robotic exploration. Two products are to be contributed by ESA to the Russian Luna 27 mission, also known as Luna Resurs. This spacecraft will perform the first landing at the South Pole of the Moon, in the...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...Moon was the metal ‘USSR’ ball, dropped by the Luna-2 soviet spacecraft. The landing was hard but that made...that easy. If the cargo is made up of spheres, much like the Luna-2 sphere, after the explosion on impact the cargo would be dissipated over a ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...efficient manner Two forthcoming robotic space missions, Russia/ESA’s Luna 27 lander and NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, will be among ...the first to test emerging ISRU possibilities. Luna 27 will focus on the possibility of lunar water ice...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...50 years of lunar regolith research following the Apollo and Luna sample return missions. Over 382 kg of lunar surface ...PROSPECT drill and analysis system, due to fly in 2023 aboard the Luna 27 mission to a region near to the lunar south pole. ...
