February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... in proportion to the quality of services the LDC provides and overall conditions on the Moon. In other words, a deteriorating lunar environment, society or economy will greatly reduce demand for service access licenses, thus harming the cooperative...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources”. This is a logical extension of the OST, in that agents of any state must be allowed free access to all...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
..., either by rover tracks, engine exhaust or even eventually, new footprints. Tests were done on the way the lunar regolith is disturbed in different controlled conditions. A 93-page document emerged from these studies with the title ‘Recommendations...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
...capabilities will be bought once, but enjoyed by two separate missions. Mission element partnering. RP’s plan is to partner on its lunar lander needs. NASA would provide the rover, ISRU payload and launch vehicle, while an international or commercial...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA Payloads using contractor provide assets, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles and associated resources,” reads the RFI. Making a move...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... sentiments are conjectural but the plausibility of the impending lunar mission within a context of a renewed global focus ...stamped container of ‘things’ Designing objects for future lunar archaeology presents a somewhat impossible problem for human-...
