18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
... missions to the Moon and Mars. ESA is also busy building a European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft - another project designed to take humans deeper into space. Orion – named after one of the largest constellations...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
...the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as water reflected from the...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
... organisations to tackle the issue of space junk. I look forward to discovering how all four experiments on board the spacecraft perform over the next few months, and I sincerely hope that the success of this mission will...
15 February 2019
RemoveDEBRIS successfully harpoons target in space
... harpoon was fired at 20 metres/sec to penetrate a target held on a 1.5 metre boom deployed from the main RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft; a test it completed successfully when the small head of the harpoon convincingly punched a hole through the metal...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
...,” he said. However, whether or not this payload can then be transferred to Earth in its entirety inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... cost increase for Orion during the media teleconference. Initially reported to cost $6.7 billion, expenditure for the spacecraft that will transport the crew to the lunar surface has grown to $9.3 billion. Rising costs were attributed...
