20 April 2018
Jim Bridenstine confirmed as new NASA Administrator
...hearing, Bridenstine 100 percent supported the continued development of the Orion spacecraft and his stance on a permanent US lunar outpost echoes that of the President’s longer-term outlook. It will be interesting to see how Bridenstine directs NASA...
01 August 2018
What now for the ISS as new audit report questions commercial interest
... focus to commercial development of the station. The decision is probably partly due to NASA’s interest in developing a human-tended lunar gateway that would orbit the moon. Any extension of the ISS past 2024 would therefore mean...
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...
