April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... south pole around 2030Photo: Moreover, any discussion about manned lunar exploration has to factor in China, which is understood to be planning to send astronauts to the lunar south pole around 2030, a favoured destination because of the likelihood...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... Russia prepares to initiate its new lunar exploration program. The first mission of Russia's lunar program, Luna-Glob, will be one...high-precision landing systems. It will be the third explorer," said Lemeshevsky. "We have invited the Europeans to ...
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...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
...for the spacecraft that will transport the crew to the lunar surface has grown to $9.3 billion. Rising costs were ...lunar lander on Artemis III. “There were a lot of requirements changes,” said Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration...
28 February 2024
SSSIF consolidates position as Europe's leading NewSpace event
... conference, saying: “Smallsats will make the process of lunar exploration more efficient when it comes to communications and navigation, and prospecting for resources.” Lunar and cis-lunar missions and the associated economy have grown exponentially...