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...
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...
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...
01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... to the knowledge accumulated by all humanity so far. It has been supplied by the Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library, the first ever Lunar archive that contains 25 layers of scientific, cultural and historical information, including dictionaries...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... the dynamics of living in close quarters for extended periods of time is one of the big challenges. The Apollo lunar missions lasted about a week or more, the crews could still catch sight of the Earth, and they knew...
