October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... sector continues to be largely state-dominated but that could change in the near future. From small satellites to a lunar base, the Russian business sector has big plans, and could save governments a lot of money When Russia...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
... volatiles such as these could play an important role for any astronauts that find themselves living in proposed lunar bases. There have already been many missions to the Moon so far to study its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1, the...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as...establish a lunar base in the next few decades. "A future Moon mission is needed to examine the whole lunar PSRs to...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
...to stay longer. Talks of extended visits and setting up lunar bases are now the new agenda, but so far, the ... a space freighter will deliver food and consumables to the orbital lunar station every 30 days. Then, exactly halfway through the SIRIUS ...
29 March 2018
Lunar Settlements
... lunar development, outer space habitat design, the human condition, planning and analogues, lunar bases, and lunar ...: “To summarize this summary, it isn’t 1961 any more, when the lunar program was carried along on a wave of public support. So we have...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... missions. Apollo mission EVAs ranged from two hours on Apollo 9 to 22 hours on Apollo 17. A future lunar base might require up to 30,000 hours of EVA exploration. Individual resistance Radiation is quite tricky in the way that it can ...
