June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... presence on the Moon. For the sunshade, viable lunar resources include aluminium and/or titanium extracted from lunar regolith; these lightweight metals can be transported from the lunar surface to an orbital manufacturing facility, while heavier...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... from that of every other zircon grain ever analysed in lunar samples, and remarkably similar to that of zircons found ...on our lunar neighbour eons ago? After developing techniques for locating impactor fragments in the lunar regolith, the ...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
...large quantities of water, either in ice or mixed with lunar regolith, could be available for human explorers to make use of. ... the importance of the Moon’s South Pole for establishing lunar bases, NASA had already earmarked this region as the...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... and overwhelming relief of all concerned. One of the experiments the astronauts left behind on the dusty lunar regolith was the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LLRE). The LLRE is made of quartz corner reflectors similar to bicycle reflectors and...
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...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...experiment preparation areas. The testbed will comprise a lunar regolith simulant sourced from the local Eifel region volcanic... to address the need within the EU to provide a lunar analogue facility that can be readily made available to research ...
