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...
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 ...
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...
