June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... global participation. At that moment, Lunar Mission One was born. The Moon is, in many ways, the perfect place to store what will effectively ... also investigate the suitability for astronomy from the Moon. Space exploration has of course led to many...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... five teams currently taking part in the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Their rover is expected to be launched towards the Moon by the end of 2017. These 3D simulations will bring us closer to the development of a 10 to 20 kg class rover prototype. Field tests...
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
...’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) in November 2018, currently are developing landers to deliver NASA payloads to the Moon’s surface. As CLPS providers, they are pre-authorized to compete on individual delivery orders. NASA also released the...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... paved the way to send American astronauts back to the Moon by signing his Space Policy Directive 1. “To guide this ... -– Obama’s predecessor – that wanted to return humans to the Moon by 2020 and then onwards to Mars. President Obama cancelled the ...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
.... Cancellation of the only NASA lunar surface mission currently under development to obtain strategic data from the Moon’s polar regions is not the way to signal that intention. As stated above, RP would be a pathfinder for NASA’s contribution...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon. A soft landing on another planetary body would have made India... - that is the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter - is orbiting the moon successfully," an official of ISRO told news agency IANS. The ...
