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...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... are the prime mission contractor providing delivery to the lunar surface, will use this as an opportunity to explore... end of this year as part of its plans to win the Google Lunar X Prize. ILO-1 is being developed by ILOA and Canadensys Aerospace of ...
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-...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
... Mars Sample Return mission or other sample return missions; and examining scenarios and mission concepts for lunar exploration missions supporting the objectives of the European scientific community. The Participating States in the E3P Programme...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
...that large quantities of water, either in ice or mixed with lunar regolith, could be available for human explorers to make use of.... the importance of the Moon’s South Pole for establishing lunar bases, NASA had already earmarked this region as the ...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... also committed to previously announced plans to create a joint lunar and deep space data centre, which will consist of hubs...programme. Despite preparing to launch its Luna 25 and Luna 27 lunar lander missions before the end of the 2020s, Russia is ...