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China Will Launch First Probe to Moon's Far Side Later This Week
Dec 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been setting the stage for a number of remote lunar operations, launching the Queqiao communications satellit...
NASA Announces New Partnerships for Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Services
Nov 30, 2018 (SPX)
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and operations, launching from Earth a...
Construction of Russian Lunar Orbital Station May Be Launched in 2025
Nov 30, 2018 (Sputnik)
According to the report, the base module is planned to be put into operation in late 2025. After that, spacecraft and lunar landing modules will be able to dock...
Lockheed Martin Selected for NASA's Commercial Lunar Lander Payload Services Contract
Nov 30, 2018 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin's lander design builds on four decades of experience engineering deep space missions, including Mars landers. The McCandless Lunar Lander is bas...
NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
The move is part of NASA's goal of sending people to the Moon in the next decade, for the first time since the Apollo era of the 1960s and '70s. NASA Administra...
Roscosmos, NASA to work together on concept of Lunar orbital station
Nov 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Today NASA is highly interested in the full-fledged Russian participation [in development of a lunar station], and I hope that together we will shape the full ...
App to the Moon
Nov 19, 2018 (ESA)
Tablet on his wrist, the astronaut snaps a 360 degree picture and marks it with some arrows to highlight geologically interesting areas. Just as he is about to ...
2028 moon mission pitched at US National Space Council meeting
Nov 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
The NSC Users' Advisory Group - a group of government and NASA officials headed by Vice President Mike Pence - was presented with a timeline for reaching and se...
Lunar Outpost unveils lunar resource prospecting rover
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth M...
European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar mission
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
The service module is integral to human missions to the Moon and Mars. After Orion launches on top of the agency's Space Launch System rocket, the service modul...
Roscosmos to Study Possibility to 3D Print Lunar Soil Details for Space Repairs
Nov 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"We need powder to be able to use additive technologies. And we want to understand if it is possible to make powder that can be baked and then used for the crea...
First moon walk's commemorative plaque sold for $468,500
Nov 04, 2018 (AFP)
The plaque includes a representation of the lunar module that touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969. Once back on Earth, it was mounted on a wooden base bef...
Maxar Technologies' MDA to design lunar rover concept for Canadian Space Agency
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
As part of MDA's concept, the rover would be engineered to travel up to 600 km over its lifetime in the harsh lunar environment via tele-robotic control and adv...
Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctioned
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Nobody really knew the extent of the stuff Armstrong amassed during his 82 years on earth, not even the children of the man who made history with his feat on Ju...
India successfully conducts crucial test of Moon lander
Oct 29, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the crucial Lander Actuator Performance Test (LAPT) at the propulsion complex in Mahend...
NASA seeks information for gateway cargo delivery services
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
The agency is seeking input from U.S. companies regarding logistics requirements to supply the Gateway. This request, published Oct. 23, 2018, will help NASA un...
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
LGS Innovations will provide an optical modem that will enable broadband data communications to and from the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle designed to take h...
NASA calls for instruments, technologies for delivery to the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
NASA is preparing to purchase commercial lunar payload delivery services for small payloads, and develop lunar landers for large payloads, to conduct more resea...
Preparing future explorers for a return to the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
Dr. David Kring, a Universities Space Research Association scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), created the training program to instruct postdo...
China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streets
Oct 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
Chairman of the Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co (CASC) Wu Chunfeng said that Beijing will be launching a ...
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