April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... It would not serve us well in the judgement of history if we made no effort to preserve some of the early lunar exploration record. Images of the SpaceIL lunar lander/hopper. An early concept (left) and the flight model prior to its planned February...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
...Therefore both scientists and engineers have supported the recent creation of new lunar exploration programmes, and the Moon as a target for science and exploration is set to become a new focus of international efforts. These will be based on initial...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
...rocket fuel for onward journeys to other planets. After the notification from NASA, the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), which supports the agency by providing analysis of scientific, technical, commercial, and...
12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... deliver it to the Moon are a prime example of how the scientific community and U.S. industry are making NASA’s lunar exploration vision a reality,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “Commercial partners are changing the landscape of space...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...2030 - A New Era of Coordinated Human and Robotic Exploration’ was the ideal platform for Woerner to articulate his...lunar polar regions are scientifically very promising places. A Moon village would also act as a ‘pit stop’ for the further exploration...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... entirety inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group (LEAG) this week, eagle-eyed attendees spotted a small footnote on one particular slide...
