... 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...
... concepts that enable the production of a rover locomotive system capable of achieving a high traversing velocity across the lunar surface while still being compliant with different types of mission architectures. To this end, we will give special...
...desolation”. On this surface, battered by sharp and jagged lunar dust lie many oddities, including a golden olive branch, ... our first footprints on the Moon. Each of the Apollo lunar landing sites is evidence of humanity’s first tentative steps off ...
... of engineering and scientific research projects. This collection currently comprises various rock and regolith simulants representing lunar and martian terrains and is termed the ESA2C (ESA’s Exploration Sample Analogue Collection). Along with the...
... Riders in the Sky’ is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and sets the tone for the...the world.” Surface operations during the 14-day mission include lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, X-ray imaging and dust ...
... Moon, the process involves separating ilmenite – a compound which contains iron, titanium and oxygen (FeTiO3) – from lunar soil, crushing it to a fine powder and then heating it in an enclosed reaction vessel in the presence of hydrogen gas. The...