April 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... from the most challenging lunar environments. Ultimately, extraterrestrial resources will be valuable not just on Earth but in cislunar space, too - as propellant, for life support supplies and for manufacturing. We believe that this future economy...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... on the Moon. But with numerous countries and private sector players also planning missions and operations in cislunar space between Earth and Moon, it is increasingly critical to establish a common set of principles to govern the civil exploration...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... in orbit has huge potential for cost savings compared to launching fresh material from Earth. Luxembourg-based CisLunar Industries is already planning a system that will harvest and recycle space waste. Nicknamed a ‘space foundry’, it would...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... upgrades, augmentations and repairs in orbit highly efficient space tugs to carry customer payloads all over the cislunar (Earth-Moon) system. Following the trail that has been blazed by the successful docking of MEV-1, the...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...Lunar Research Station (ILRS) in the 2030s. Maintaining a sustainable presence in LEO At the same time as pursuing initiatives in cislunar space and beyond, the leading space agencies also agree on the importance of maintaining a sustainable presence...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... three-year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar space to be visited by astronauts. That request includes $66.7 million for work on the robotic spacecraft, called the Asteroid...
