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NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the Moon
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The delivery of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment known as PRIME-1 will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and, for the first time, harve...
Intuitive Machines wins order to search for ice at Lunar south pole
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. "Laying the...
Magnetic fields on the moon are the remnant of an ancient core dynamo
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
One theory is that they are in some way remnants of an ancient core magnetic field. Possibly similar to what can still be observed on Earth today. Here, the cor...
HeroX helps NASA advance Lunar exploration with a miniaturized payload prototype challenge
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
The challenge seeks to develop miniature payload prototypes that can be sent to the Moon to help fill gaps in lunar knowledge. Lunar resources are potentially a...
Faces Behind NASA's Artemis Gateway - Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Meet Sharada Vitalpur, Communication and Tracking Systems Manager for Gateway From satellites to Gateway, Sharada Vitalpur has come a long way to fulfill her dr...
Airbus selected for ESA's Moon lander study
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Europe is already contributing to the Global Exploration Roadmap agreed by 14 space agencies around the world, in which Airbus is also playing its part. Europea...
NASA funds Nokia plan to provide cellular service on moon
Oct 15, 2020 (UPI)
That project was part of $370 million in new contracts for lunar surface research missions NASA announced Wednesday. Most of the money went to large space compa...
UK and NASA sign international agreement ahead of mission to the Moon
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
The UK will play a key role in this mission. Businesses across the UK will be involved in building the service module and habitation module of the Lunar Gateway...
US remains hopeful Russia will join Artemis Space Coalition to Moon, NASA Admin says
Oct 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
Seven states participating in US lunar exploration efforts have joined the United States in signing the "Artemis Accords", Bridenstine said in a virtual event s...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 23rd lunar day
Oct 13, 2020 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 6:57 p.m. Saturday, said sources with the Lunar Explor...
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under 'Artemis Accords'
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
The treaty paves the way for its founding members -- Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States -- to part...
Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
The proposed new station, called the Gateway, "is too US-centric, so to speak," Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said, adding Rus...
Moon's magnetic crust research sees scientists debunk long-held theory
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Australian researcher and study co-author Dr Katarina Miljkovic, from the Curtin Space Science and Technology Centre, located within the School of Earth and Pla...
First U.S. robotic moon lander since Apollo era planned for mid-2021
Oct 07, 2020 (UPI)
The lander project, which received funding from NASA, would become the first private, commercial mission to the moon, said Sharad Bhaskaran, mission director fo...
NASA Asks: What Would You Pack for the Moon?
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
To take the challenge to the next level, the agency also has an Expert Mode: follow the strict guidelines astronauts must adhere to when packing their "personal...
A roadmap for science on the moon
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the Moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the ...
Simulations give clues to atmospheric loss from Moon's origin
Sep 30, 2020 (SPX)
New research led by Durham University, UK, shows how the extent of atmospheric loss depends upon the type of giant impact with the Earth. Researchers ran more t...
Japan aiming to send hopping spacecraft fuelled by lunar water to Moon
Sep 30, 2020 (Sputnik)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has asserted it intends to engage in a lunar exploration mission beginning in the mid-2030s, making use of hydroge...
UAE to launch lunar rover in 2024
Sep 30, 2020 (Sputnik)
"With God's help, we have launched a new Emirati project to explore the Moon. It will be a space aircraft explorer that will land on the planet surface in 2024 ...
NASA needs new funding by February for 2024 moon landing, administrator says
Sep 30, 2020 (UPI)
"If we get to February of 2021 without an appropriation, that's going to really put the brakes on our ability to achieve a moon landing by as early as 2024," Br...
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