16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
... the potential construction of a science and research base on our nearest celestial neighbour. Aside from the nation’s lunar missions, and a possible probe to Mars around 2020, China is also forging ahead with its orbital station – a project...
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...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... could see each country contributing a payload to the others up and coming lunar missions, namely the Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft and Chang’e-7 polar landing mission respectively. The agreement would also see both space-faring nations establishing...
17 December 2020
Chang'e 5 probe returns to Earth with Moon rocks
China's most sophisticated and challenging space adventure – the Chang'e 5 robotic lunar mission – ended successfully early Thursday morning with its cargo of lunar rocks and dust landing on the grasslands in northern China. The China National Space...
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...
13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
... lander to the lunar surface by the end of the year. This would be the first-ever Israeli Moon mission and only the...from launch to landing. Once firmly ensconced on the surface, its mission, aside from taking photos and videos of the landing site, is ...
