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...
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...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
...inflatables, but maybe a one-storey habitat attached to a lunar lander system. Neeraj Gupta and Janet Kavandi. I recognise the habitats...are either launch vehicle or capsule providers with plans for lunar stuff, but not a combination of the whole thing...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... agency announced in 2019 that this approach was no longer a priority and that Artemis would rely on an integrated lunar lander instead (top). No specifics Nevertheless, in 2019, NASA had authorised Boeing to start work on 10 more core stages and...
05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... the university and NASA, Astrobotic are working on a CubeRover design capable of characterising surface mobility and evaluating lunar lander ejecta but on a petite scale. Like its satellite namesake – CubeSat – which has transformed the economics...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...-term storage technology”, Bultitude says. Tanker-002 is sharing a lift to space with Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander, courtesy of GeoJump, which is offering rideshare missions to GEO in partnership with Spaceflight. Following separation from...
