25 September 2019
Spacebit announces agreement to land first UK commercial payload on Moon
... Station in Florida. The launch will carry the first lunar lander from American soil since Apollo. CEO of Spacebit,... Spacebit has pioneered a captivating new way of working on the lunar surface, and we look forward to more details being released soon...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
... lost, as the spacecraft has crashed onto the lunar surface after the apparent failure of its main engine...since its inception. Originally designed to take part in Google’s Lunar XPRIZE by the nonprofit organisation SpaceIL, together with IAI the two...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... both the agency and the companies contribute money. A habitat is one of several modules planned to make up NASA’s Lunar Gateway platform, which the agency’s White House-appointed administrator Jim Bridenstine described March 11 as a Moon-orbiting...
03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
... achievement. Since then, enthusiasts and professionals alike have been on the hunt for Vikram's remains. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team released the first mosaic (acquired Sept. 17) of the site on Sept. 26 and many...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
At the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week, scientists working on NASA’s InSight mission reveal ...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
...department of the Space Research Institute, in news reported 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 composition of the surface in a strip about 30 centimetres...
