11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
...down when temperatures start dropping. "This is an important new result about lunar water, a hot topic as our nation's space program returns to a focus on lunar exploration," said Dr. Kurt Retherford, the principal investigator of the LAMP instrument...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...2 Space Studies Board (2002). The quarantine and certification of Martian samples. Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (chaired by J. Wood), National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. ISBN-13: 978-0309075718. 3 Ammann...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... Earth’s orbit and land on the Moon. As of October 2018, it has raised US$12.5 million for its plan for lunar exploration and development, which includes sending a small spacecraft to the Moon. It plans to follow this with the establishment...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
...4 probe has helped kick start the fourth phase of China's lunar exploration program, starting with the launch of Chang’e 5 at the ... of countries pushing forward the frontiers of space exploration together based on equality, peaceful use and mutual...
25 September 2019
Spacebit announces agreement to land first UK commercial payload on Moon
... signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration starting in 2021. For the mission, Spacebit will utilise Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, which will be launched on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape...
11 October 2019
Spacebit unveils its design of the UK's first Moon rover
... announced a few weeks ago that it had signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration starting in 2021, the company has now revealed the design of its lander - a walking rover that looks...
