July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...mission achieved humanity’s first soft landing on the far side of the Moon. It also attempted a first-of-a-kind biosphere experiment which has encouraged work on Earth that one day could aid the establishment of long-term settlements of humans beyond...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
...novel Dutch/Chinese collaboration. Meaning "magpie bridge" in Chinese, Queqiao, the once communications relay satellite stationed on the far side of the Moon is now the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE); a prototype radio telescope with...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
...Earth with dangerous asteroid flybys you pump it outward with an electrically conductive space elevator on the far side of the Moon But this article is about the much longer term, assuming that we grow up enough to solve our current problems and care...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a vast radio telescope concept deployed to a crater on the far side of the Moon that was proposed by Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay. If Bandyopadhyay's novel LCRT concept does not come to full fruition, then ...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... there will be industrial and business ventures.” In Woerner’s vision the “been there, done that” view of the Moon does not arise. “No human has ever visited the far side of the Moon,” he says. “Astronomers want to set up radio telescopes there...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... probe mission, Chang'e 5, scheduled to launch in 2017. It will gather samples from the Moon and return the specimens to Earth. The Chang'e 4 lunar lander, scheduled for launch in 2018, will attempt the first landing on the far side of the moon.
