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...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... kg. The Exotrail ExoMG™ - Cluster2 is a system configuration baselined on three different microsat platforms for both LEO and cislunar missions architecture. Hitting the road of space mobility It is never too late to embrace the problems of space...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... heading toward persistent sensor coverage. Many organisations are already looking to expand SSA capabilities into the cislunar domain. Most initiatives are currently run by governments worldwide. Raising vast amounts of capital at early stages, when...
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...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
...-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few meters in diameter from the asteroid and bring it to cislunar space. An manned Orion mission, planned for 2026, will then visit the boulder for research purposes...
