01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... for 2020 and 2021. The company’s first two lunar missions will be carried out under the program name HAKUTO-R,... to have been selected by ispace to launch their first lunar missions. We are looking forward to delivering their innovative spacecraft to...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... to lay the foundations for a Mars sample return later in the decade or even a crewed lunar mission. The nation is already lining up three further missions after Chang’e 5 is complete; Chang’e 6 and 7 will focus on the south pole of the Moon...
14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... of its commercial programme known as ‘HAKUTO-R’. Under the terms of the agreement, the Japanese lunar exploration company will deliver the Emirates Lunar Mission’s ‘Rashid’ rover to the Moon, provide wired communication and power during the cruise...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
...designed to be sustainable for repeated lunar missions and, above all, to keep our astronauts safe. We created a... the development and launch of a pathfinder mission to low-Earth orbit of the lunar descent element to further retire development and ...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... used on a variety of launchers and landers, building on a heritage that goes all the way back to the Apollo lunar missions. Meanwhile, GSI and Space Intelligence, based in Edinburgh, use Earth observation data to derive insights into forests...
09 December 2020
SpaceIL announce Beresheet 2 will head to the Moon in 2024
... and most affordable spacecraft to travel to the Moon – it cost around $100 million – a fraction of the price of most lunar missions. It also had a profound impact on Israel, with hundreds of thousands of its citizens watching the launch. The planned...
