03 January 2019
Chinese goddess lands on far side of the Moon
... into being. Launched on 7 December 2018, the Chang'e 4 spacecraft comprises both a lunar lander and a six-wheeled rover. Chang'e 4 first entered an elliptical lunar orbit on 12 December, drawing as close as nine miles (15 km) from the surface before...
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...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
... terrain. These include; a terrain camera, a Low Frequency Spectrometer (LFS), and a Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry (LND) developed by Kiel University in Germany. The lander also carries a 3 kilogram sealed container with seeds and insect eggs...
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...
