18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
...11 as a Moon-orbiting staging area for lunar landers and occasionally astronauts, with solar-electric propulsion moving... is learning all about the entire Moon,” he continued, “giving landers, rovers, robots and humans more access to more parts of the...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... be the first ‘astro-scientist’ training centre on the lunar surface. There, astro-scientists will be trained to perform ... wasted and nothing is left behind. Effectively, the lunar lander acts as first base and is later connected to the crater bases ...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
...fire and he famously survived an ejection from the lunar lander trainer in 1968 when it crashed at low altitude... the only clear 70 mm Hasselblad photograph of Armstrong captured on the lunar surface. The ‘gift’ of Armstrong Norman Mailer’s book, Of a...
14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... first of its kind from the Arab world. The ‘Rashid’ rover will be transported to the Moon on ispace’s lunar lander during the company’s ‘Mission 1’ in 2022 as part of its commercial programme known as ‘HAKUTO-R’. Under the terms of the...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
...also committed to previously announced plans to create a joint lunar and deep space data centre, which will consist of hubs.... Despite preparing to launch its Luna 25 and Luna 27 lunar lander missions before the end of the 2020s, Russia is feeling ...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...using the Scorpion’s Serpent engines and a specialised hydrogen and oxygen lunar lander using in situ oxygen produced from lunar regolith. These could reduce the cost of reaching the lunar surface by a third, to a level comparable to the current cost...
