August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... be the first ‘astro-scientist’ training centre on the lunar surface. There, astro-scientists will be trained to perform ... wasted and nothing is left behind. Effectively, the lunar lander acts as first base and is later connected to the crater bases ...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...using the Scorpion’s Serpent engines and a specialised hydrogen and oxygen lunar lander using in situ oxygen produced from lunar regolith. These could reduce the cost of reaching the lunar surface by a third, to a level comparable to the current cost...
05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... the university and NASA, Astrobotic are working on a CubeRover design capable of characterising surface mobility and evaluating lunar lander ejecta but on a petite scale. Like its satellite namesake – CubeSat – which has transformed the economics...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...came to be known as Artemis 1, followed later by a crewed mission to lunar orbit, and culminating in a human landing on the Moon’s surface in 2024...than $3 billion in fiscal year 2021 to have lunar landers built quickly enough to achieve the goal, even...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
...-off company of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, to carry a payload provided by AEM to the Moon on the Peregrine Lander, a lunar lander the company is developing. The agency issued a request for proposals for the development of the payload...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... of that oxygen is now being reclaimed from the captured CO2. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit. This will be the first outpost beyond low Earth orbit and is intended to serve as a stepping stone...
