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...
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...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
... scientists who were originally hunting for ice hidden in polar lunar craters say they have stumbled across evidence to clear up...in the distribution of iron and titanium oxides in the lunar subsurface. "It really raises the question of what this means...
01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... entering a new era in space exploration and SpaceX is proud to have been selected by ispace to launch their first lunar missions. We are looking forward to delivering their innovative spacecraft to the Moon,” added Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President...
