10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... teleconference. Initially reported to cost $6.7 billion, expenditure for the spacecraft that will transport the crew to the lunar surface has grown to $9.3 billion. Rising costs were attributed in part to pandemic-related issues as well as the need...
30 September 2021
China, Russia to present lunar station declaration at IAC in Dubai
... presented an ILRS road map. According to the proposed concept, the lunar station is to be finalized by 2035. In 2026-2030, two ...landing and cargo delivery techniques and also the transportation of lunar soil samples to the Earth. In 2031-2035, the...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
...newly commissioned deep space antenna (GHY-6) into IM’s Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN). The LTN will... Program and send the first spacecraft ever to reach the lunar south pole. About Goonhilly Goonhilly is a global communications services...
19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
...The company is also behind Team Hakuto, a contender in the Google Lunar XPRIZE with aims to send the first privately developed micro-rover to ... been awarded a Mobility Milestone Prize from Google Lunar XPRIZE in January 2015. The company’s long ...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... and has awarded a contract to build the Gateway's power and propulsion element. Canada's Laporte is eager for lunar exploration to break new ground in governance, anticipating a "discovery period”. "I think this new venture that we're engaging...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...was a hot and fiery one. The vast majority of lunar evolution occurred in the first billion years of its existence...techniques to map rocks and minerals in 3D, and with NASA on lunar samples. He also works with volcano monitoring experts on Tenerife to...
