06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
...metres and, ike the Vikram lander is designed to last one lunar day (14 Earth days). The overhead orbiter, Chandrayaan-2, however ... left over from when comets and meteorites bombarded the lunar surface, thus offering scientists the chance to study an...
13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
...for the Moon and plans to send its lander to the lunar surface by the end of the year. This would be ... founded by three young engineers to compete for Google's $20 million Lunar X Prize, the promise of landing an Israeli spacecraft on the moon...
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...
