09 December 2020
SpaceIL announce Beresheet 2 will head to the Moon in 2024
... was still awarded a $1 million "Moonshot Award" by the X Prize Foundation in recognition of Beresheet touching the surface of the Moon. SpaceIL are also the recipients of a $1 million grant from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, who have contributed...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
...,” say the company on their website. The final design of the moon racers will be selected from proposals submitted by a winning team of ...groups, two will be selected to race on the moon. “Moon Mark’s mission of getting young people involved in ...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...potentially interesting system when in 2019, astronomers found compelling evidence that a dusty disk capable of forming multiple moons was surrounding the outermost known planet, PDS 70c, which is located approximately 5.3 billion kilometres from its...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
...Artemis programme. Screenshot from a virtual reality tour of the Moon's South Pole created by NASA engineers to help Divergent ... It is plausible that continuous commercial activities on the Moon may arise within the career lifetime of many current...
06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
... be surrounded by an atmosphere more prevalent than that surrounding Mars today,” added Kring. This new picture of the Moon has important implications for future exploration programmes as the suspected volatiles trapped in icy deposits could provide...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...bases. There have already been many missions to the Moon so far to study its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1,...Volatiles Mission, or MiLUV for short, could also study the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in perhaps a...
