July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...installations. ILOA has submitted a proposal to the recent NASA Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads programme for its potential flight... looking for minerals to crewed bases and a lunar gateway platform in a nearby orbit. The Chinese human...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
...’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation 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...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
...”; a vehicle that brings the landing systems into position in lunar orbit. The Transfer Element is based on its Cygnus cargo ...module for NASA's proposed Lunar Gateway which will serve as an exploration outpost for lunar missions. Meanwhile Draper, who...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... have required Bridenstine to notify Congress of the overrun. Lunar Gateway (above) formed a key part of NASA’s return... longer a priority and that Artemis would rely on an integrated lunar lander instead (top). No specifics Nevertheless, in 2019, NASA...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
..., said that approximately 25 percent of the exploration budget will be spent on lunar activities, including subscription for the iHAB and ESPRIT modules for the Lunar Gateway, lunar robotic missions, and the European service module for NASA’s Orion...
01 October 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
...and 47 years since the last men left the lunar surface to return home. No-one has gone to the Moon since ...the second, the book is sufficiently up-to-date to include discussion of the Lunar Gateway and the plan to return humans to the Moon in 2024. Musk...
