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,...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... configuration A second major release was the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander set, developed to mark, as the publicity accurately describes...Expert’ series, explains that “for both the actual lunar lander and our Lego tribute, blueprints… are the beginning ...
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 ...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... and proximity operations that will be used with the HLS lunar lander on Artemis III. “There were a lot of requirements...of the protest, SpaceX was unable to start work developing the lander. "We're pleased with the US Court of Federal Claims' thorough...
