30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
... in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission for more than 40 years. The spacecraft is performing ...ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon and carry out automatic sampling. The orbiter-returner ...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space ...communications station, capable of tracking future missions to the Moon and beyond. At present, if you are planning on ...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
The first Apollo moonwalk in July 1969 was watched by millions of people all over the world and became a great moment in humankind’s history. Five more successful landing missions followed Apollo 11 and each successive soacecraft touched down ...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... Artemis-1 programme in which the Space Launch System (SLS) is due to fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon is also highly unlikely to achieve its launch date of 2020 due to similar setbacks. The review, the latest...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...by the mission team to be the more scientifically desirable moon for sample collection than its smaller companion, as Phobos...at least 10 grams from a minimum of 2 centimetres below the moon’s surface. The spacecraft will then head back to Earth so the...
15 April 2016
Shifting ice on Europa could be warmer than anticipated
...it was first observed. The smallest of the four Galilean moons, Europa is under a constant gravitational assault, causing the icy... ultimately could give an indication as to the chemistry in the moon’s oceans. And if you're looking for life, then the ...
