October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... launches within five years to support it. We want to build the first Moonbase on the Malapert mountain, close to the lunar south pole. It has good conditions for communications and gets a lot of sunlight. Nearby craters could potentially contain ice...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
... crater receive almost perpetual sunlight, making it a useful locale in which to top-up solar powered cells, the lunar south pole is also believed to contain large deposits of water ice. Depending on its availability, the water-ice could conceivably...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... the driving ability of humans involving a teleoperated, high-speed, prospecting rover on an environment resembling the lunar south pole could be conducted. The assessment of the potential of a teleoperated, improved-mobility rover to assist future...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... as contact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost minutes before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan-2 approached the Moon as normal and completed the so-called rough breaking phase of the descent...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
..., due to fly in 2023 aboard the Luna 27 mission to a region near to the lunar south pole. Of particular interest there is the amount of ice and other volatiles in the lunar regolith, and their origin and extractability potential for the preparation...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... permanent outpost integrated with a greenhouse, permanently inhabited by eight crewmembers, and located at the lunar south pole near the Shackleton crater. The design of base or settlement elements should allow repurposing them as needed, salvaging...
