03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
... Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with their lander shortly before the scheduled touchdown. Despite the loss... have been on the hunt for Vikram's remains. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team released the first mosaic (acquired Sept...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan-2 approached the Moon as normal ... "Only 5 per cent of the mission has been lost - Vikram the lander and Pragyan the rover - while the remaining 95 per cent - that ...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... will be constructed by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin respectively. The Descent Element is based on the Blue Moon lunar lander and BE-7 LOX/hydrogen engine, while the reusable Ascent Element vehicle is based on the deep-space Orion...
31 December 2019
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
The latest space-related model in Lego’s Creator Expert series has landed! The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander building set was developed to mark, as the publicity accurately describes, “the 50th anniversary of a historical event that ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... the ESA Technical Officer for the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS), scheduled for flight on the US Astrobotic M1 lunar lander mission to Lacus Mortis in 2021. Dr Trautner gained his PhD and MSc degrees from Technical University of Graz...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
... each year through sales of his Amazon shares, unveiled a mock-up of Blue Origin’s aptly named Blue Moon lunar lander at this small invite-only event. “It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay,” Bezos said, as he stood...
