May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
...LBAs) waveband. These antennas (see image at right) could be adapted to a lightweight form and grouped to suit the lunar environment. PSRs like Shackleton, chilled to around -240C, could provide a stable, superconducting environment that is ideal for...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... Johnson. A team composed both of current and original-generation Apollo scientists (including Dr. Harrison H. ‘Jack’ Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot and the only trained geologist to live and work on another world) is establishing exactly how...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... to the agency, who will in turn pay the mission supplier. The revenues would be underwritten separately. Lunar pioneering Lunar Mission One is without doubt pioneering a new method of financing space exploration, a new strategy of working with...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... missions launched by these countries and their corporations to the Moon. This demonstration of how we might unlock such lunar resources profitably is what offers us the best chance of taking the next giant leap towards becoming a bi-planetary...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
... as a means to deploy the rovers. Based in Colorado, Lunar Outpost says it will utilise its extensive experience gained from the ... of the “fastest vehicles ever landed on the lunar surface”. Once on the lunar surface, the racers will do battle on a ...
25 November 2020
Chang'e 5 is on its way to the Moon
... technologies such as narrow window multi-orbit binding launch, automatic lunar surface sampling and packaging, lunar surface takeoff, lunar orbital rendezvous and docking, and lunar sample storage, and improve China’s aerospace technology level; the...
