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...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...from Germany: TU Clausthal, BAM, Hochschule Aalen, from Austria: LIQUIFER), researches how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as roads and launch pads. Such infrastructure reduces problems...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... seamless coordination of their various planning, navigation and operational activities? Here, the author proposes the introduction of a lunar linear time zone. The subject of space exploration and industrialisation has seen many challenges, and many...
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...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
... near the poles. However by using a UV spectrograph, known as the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument, on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of scientists have observed water molecules ‘hopping’ around the dayside of the Moon...
