March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... so few countries have ratified it that can be deemed to be a failed treaty. Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Dec. 5, 1979, 1363 U.N.T.S. 3, (entered into force Jul. 11, 1984). 11 Outer Space Treaty...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
...vehicle that brings the landing system down towards the Moon. ∙ Draper leads descent guidance and provides flight ... of the Artemis programme." A full scale model of the Blue Moon lunar lander, unveiled earlier this year, is being displayed at the...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the Moon and back to Earth, paving the way for future Artemis missions..., just like it will during every Artemis launch to the Moon. The longer duration hot fire tested a variety of operational ...
25 November 2021
European scientists bounced first ever LoRa message off the Moon
... to send and receive low-powered messages from the Moon. This could become relevant for future lunar communications. ... being used in amateur radio experiments and is now often used for moon bounces. Nicolas Sornin, co-inventor of LoRa, said: “This is ...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...rocket this year, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back on a mission that came to be known...crewed mission to lunar orbit, and culminating in a human landing on the Moon’s surface in 2024 — famously by at least one man and one ...
02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...and is preparing to start work on the surface of the moon. Scientific instruments installed on the lander include cameras to survey...lunar rocks and soil to help scientists learn about the Moon's origins, formation and volcanic activity on its surface....
