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 ...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
...to land the first astronauts near the lunar South Pole. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for ...human landing system, next-generation spacesuits, Gateway lunar space station, and future rovers are NASA...
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...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... send astronauts back to the Moon by the middle of this decade. The astronauts will land at the lunar south pole, a challenging location because of its extreme temperatures, craters, sharp regolith, shadowed areas and changing illumination conditions...
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...
