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...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... ever since. China made history in 2019 when it became the first to land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon. Last year, it successfully landed a rover on Mars. China completed the launch of its own satellite navigation system Beidou in 2020...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...landed a Chang’e spacecraft (‘graceful moon goddess’) with a small rover on the far side of the Moon before anyone else - the kind of pioneering role that until recently was the exclusive realm of the United States and the former Soviet Union. A Mars...
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 ...
