October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... deployable airlock studies for orbital applications (Fig. 2), lunar lander study, habitability and lunar base studies of Boeing design for lunar orbital platform-gateway, and lunar surface systems study parts I and II. Analysing the limitations...
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...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... is not due to be delivered until the Artemis VI mission on a date still unconfirmed. A 1:10 model of a China manned lunar lander with attached lunar rover and (far right) VAST’s Haven-1 private space station. Sustainability It is good that space...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... NASA has developed and recently tested such a nuclear reactor called KRUSTY, that it is also considering testing on a lunar lander. However, as with the other nuclear power options, the question of their safety in an off-world environment remains...
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...
