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...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...5 x 5 cm with a design that makes it extensible to multi-camera installations. ILOA has submitted a proposal to the recent NASA Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads programme for its potential flight via commercial landers as part of Moon...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... lies neither in science nor in exploration, but in its material Is it possible to extract water from ice deposits at the lunar poles and process it into propellant for US$500/kg or less? To answer this question, researchers at the Colorado School...
