13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... upper stage operations and has applications for lunar landers. The second project seeks to prove that... flight demonstration as part of the first Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander mission planned for 2020. Paragon Space Development Corporation ...
09 December 2020
SpaceIL announce Beresheet 2 will head to the Moon in 2024
... to the goal of landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the lunar surface. Beresheet 1 may not have completed it’s objectives, but it was the first privately funded lunar lander, the smallest and most affordable spacecraft to travel to the Moon...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... to launch in 2017. It will gather samples from the Moon and return the specimens to Earth. The Chang'e 4 lunar lander, scheduled for launch in 2018, will attempt the first landing on the far side of the moon.
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... to facilitate their plans for multiple Moon missions with the aid of the Peregrine lunar lander. Peregrine is Astrobitotic’s lunar lander that is designed to deliver payloads for governments, companies, universities, non-profits, and individuals...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...deliver goods without rocket deceleration has already been tried successfully. An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on the surface of the Moon after a soft landing. The California-based company is one of three selected by NASA...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... the SLS’s inaugural flight in 2021. Interestingly, the new bill also directs NASA to develop a human lunar lander “as an integrated lunar landing system carried on an Exploration Upper Stage-enhanced Space Launch System,” known as SLS Block 1B. This...
