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...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... 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...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
...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 ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... 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...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
... 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 ...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... 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...
