July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...-2 rover, was launched on 7 December 2018 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and was the first lunar lander to carry a self-sustaining ecosystem to the surface of Moon. Its science payloads included a unique biosphere experiment which...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... on the multi-year development of the Blue Moon lunar lander and its BE-7 engine. ∙ Lockheed Martin develops the... our partners' heritage with our advance work on the Blue Moon lunar lander and its BE-7 engine, our team is looking forward to working ...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
...back in May, which included $1.045 billion for human lunar landers, but the final 2020 spending bill passed yesterday provides...is for Advanced Cislunar and Surface Activities (the human lunar landers), $140 million for the Human Research Program, and ...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... satellites As for the further future, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos recently announced the ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander programme that the company has been working on. As a human race we need to go back to the Moon and we need...
01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... in Yehudi, Israel. Watching from closer in to the action will be NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will attempt to take scientific measurements of the SpaceIL lander as it lands on the Moon. Opher Doron, IAI’s Space Division General Manager...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...in early July 1969, unmanned but with a full lunar lander payload just two weeks before Apollo 11, with disastrous... in 1974 the programme was secretly terminated. The Soviet lunar lander spacecraft was never fully tested in action. Prototype versions,...
