01 August 2018
What now for the ISS as new audit report questions commercial interest
... moon. Any extension of the ISS past 2024 would therefore mean less (or no) money for the agency’s cislunar or deep space ambition, so naturally something has to give. And at this moment in time, it is the ISS which is looking...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... production programs on a large-scale and should not be unexpected,”says Gerstenmaier. “NASA’s goal for returning humans to cislunar space remains on track.”
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... Research and Development receives $1,435 million, of which $450 million is for Gateway, $600 million is for Advanced Cislunar and Surface Activities (the human lunar landers), $140 million for the Human Research Program, and...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
...be 'repurposed’ under the new bill. Instead of a lunar Gateway, the bill advocates the requirement of a “Gateway to Mars” in cislunar space or at a Lagrange point. The martian Gateway, that specifically “shall not be required for the conduct of human...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... on other planets. United Launch Alliance, who has already offered to buy liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen propellant in cislunar space has said in a report that based on input from customers, “it was determined that there will be an early...
21 April 2021
Russia announces the first module of its new space station will be launched in 2025
... countries future national space station could be used as a staging post for the exploration of the Moon and cislunar space. “This is one of the new functions. And maybe it is being considered very seriously, the station is as a kind...
