...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...
... 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...
... 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...
...carrying with it 4G communications equipment for NASA’s Artemis programme. Carried to their destination by Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, Lunar Outpost’s M1 Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover will also scoop up some regolith, take...
... NASA, which could threaten to delay work on lunar landers needed for Artemis. Such bills usually prevent agencies ...relying on a special authorised anomaly to start a lunar lander program. With questionable timetables, reshuffles and financial worries...
Russia is planning to recommence its uncrewed lunar sample return activities, ceased since the last lunar lander flown in 1974. Plans include three uncrewed craft – Lunas 25, 26 and 27 – flying in 2023-25. Subsequently, Luna 28 and 29 would ...