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...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... by Russian news site RIA Novosti. “It is best suited for a lunar rover. Along the route we will be able to determine the elemental... it will target the Boguslavsky crater near to the lunar south pole. Its flight is slated to leave from the Vostochny...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
...newly commissioned deep space antenna (GHY-6) into IM’s Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN). The LTN ...Program and send the first spacecraft ever to reach the lunar south pole. About Goonhilly Goonhilly is a global communications services hub ...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... a visual navigation and hazard avoidance system to safely land on the lunar surface. The Luna-27 lander will fly to a challenging landing site closer to the lunar south pole using a European system called Pilot as its main navigation system. Its...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... the solar system. It truly enables the science of the LunaH-Map mission, mapping water-ice at the lunar south pole with a miniature neutron spectrometer,” said Prof. Craig Hardgrove, Arizona State University’s Principal Investigator for LunaH...
