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...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... that vehicle and begin their descent to the lunar surface. The lunar transfer stage slows the descent vehicle most of... organisations. The nations interested in long-term lunar exploration are rapidly sorting themselves into two politically...
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...
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
... System and Advanced Neutron Measurements at the Lunar Surface are neutron spectrometers that will measure ...to compete on individual delivery orders. NASA also released the Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payload (LSITP) call in October...
