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...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... a backwards step by the US government away from a more ambitious agenda for space exploration. Even the proposed lunar Gateway - a base in lunar orbit used as a platform for astronauts heading to the Moon and a key element of NASA's Artemis program...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
.... In March 2021 Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base designed for conducting scientific research. It will include all support facilities on the...
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 ...
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...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...Chang'e 4 have been adapted from Chinas earlier Chang'e 3 lunar probe, which took up residence on the Moon in December...sending astronauts to the Moon and to one day establish a lunar base. The nation has two more missions lined up, Chang’e 5 ...
