May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... by a robotic arm. The latest experiments (September 2023) included MISSE-18-NASA which tested coatings, quantum dots, lunar regolith composites, and other materials in the low Earth orbit environment for potential future uses. For example...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...from Germany: TU Clausthal, BAM, Hochschule Aalen, from Austria: LIQUIFER), researches how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as roads and launch pads. Such infrastructure reduces problems...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... Astronomy) are cementing our understanding of water on the Moon. Previously, water ice in the form of OH (hydroxyl) locked in lunar regolith had been detected, but now research teams have unambiguously detected the H2O molecule, while another...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... MHz) radio observatory is a concept proposed by Ronald Polidan at Lunar Resources, Inc. Polidan envisages that Farview would also be built on the lunar farside, but this time using lunar regolith materials. “This radio telescope will be the first...
31 May 2021
JAXA to send a transforming robot to the Moon in 2022
...Packed on board the rover are cameras designed to image the lunar regolith as the machine traverses the surface of the Moon. This... on Earth to evaluate how the impact of the regolith will affect the driving performance of the future crewed pressurised...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
...for Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering, and Probing of Lunar Regolith, will be the first robotic arm on the ...yet-to-be-named lander and will be used to acquire samples of lunar regolith. The arm is a flight spare from the Mars Exploration ...
