November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
...orbiter and the Luna-27 lander (also called Luna-Resurs). Luna-27 is focused on the discovery and characterisation of lunar resources including volatiles at a high latitude landing site (beyond 85 degrees south) and will carry a European contribution...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
..., either by rover tracks, engine exhaust or even eventually, new footprints. Tests were done on the way the lunar regolith is disturbed in different controlled conditions. A 93-page document emerged from these studies with the title ‘Recommendations...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
...capabilities will be bought once, but enjoyed by two separate missions. Mission element partnering. RP’s plan is to partner on its lunar lander needs. NASA would provide the rover, ISRU payload and launch vehicle, while an international or commercial...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA Payloads using contractor provide assets, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles and associated resources,” reads the RFI. Making a move...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... are the prime mission contractor providing delivery to the lunar surface, will use this as an opportunity to explore... end of this year as part of its plans to win the Google Lunar X Prize. ILO-1 is being developed by ILOA and Canadensys Aerospace of ...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... sentiments are conjectural but the plausibility of the impending lunar mission within a context of a renewed global focus ...stamped container of ‘things’ Designing objects for future lunar archaeology presents a somewhat impossible problem for human-...
