25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
...at a time on the Moon will no doubt push any lunar explorer to the limit, not only physically, but mentally. As ...a space freighter will deliver food and consumables to the orbital lunar station every 30 days. Then, exactly halfway through the SIRIUS...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
...Chang'e-5 probes.” Expected to be a kerosene-liquid oxygen fuelled rocket, the former deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme said that the technologies behind the project are already at a mature stage of development and that...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... on the Martian surface. Many of the concepts, like the sintering of regolith, are already being proposed for lunar exploration. The techniques would need to be further developed and tested here on Earth, but this is also a latter part...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
...way since its inception. Originally designed to take part in Google’s Lunar XPRIZE by the nonprofit organisation SpaceIL, together with IAI the two ...paved the way for further low-cost lunar exploration and with a $1 million now at SpaceIL’s disposal, Beresheet ...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
NASA’s call to industry asking American companies to provide an integrated human landing system for the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration programme, has been answered by space manufacturing giant Boeing with a design that specifies it will ensure a...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
... astronauts on the Artemis Team come from a diverse range of backgrounds, expertise, and experience. The agency’s modern lunar exploration program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable...
