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The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

NASA Orion spacecraft enters lunar orbit: officials

Washington (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 - NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully.

Nov 25, 2022

European Service Module powering Orion to the Moon and back

Paris (ESA) Nov 24, 2022 - The European Service Module is powering Orion around the Moon and back, providing propulsion, temperature control, electricity as well as storage and delivery for essential supplies such as fuel, wa

Nov 24, 2022

Orion Exits the Lunar Sphere Of Influence

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 - On the eighth day of its mission, Orion continues to travel farther away from the Moon as it prepares to enter a distant retrograde orbit. The orbit is distant in the sense that it's at a high alt

Nov 24, 2022

China to complete lunar outpost by 2028

Beijing (XNA) Nov 23, 2022 - China will possibly complete the establishment of a lunar research outpost based on two robotic exploration missions by 2028 and send Chinese astronauts to the moon around 2030, according to the chi

Nov 23, 2022

Artemis powering past the Moon

Paris (ESA) Nov 23, 2022 - The European Service Module is powering Orion around the Moon and back, providing propulsion, temperature control, electricity as well as storage and delivery for essential supplies such as fuel, wa

Nov 23, 2022

Advanced Space leads first ever commercial mission to operate at the moon

Westminster CO (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 - Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, is the first commercial entity to own an operational satellite at the Moon. CAPSTONE, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technolo

Nov 23, 2022

CAPSTONE forges new path for NASA’s future Artemis lunar mission

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 - NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has completed final maneuvers to place it in its target orbit around the Moon, refining its path in the orbit it arrived to last week. The spacecraft now is in the o

Nov 23, 2022

Orion performs first Lunar flyby with closest outbound approach

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2022 - On its sixth day into the Artemis I mission, Orion successfully completed its fourth orbital trajectory correction burn using the auxiliary engines at 1:44 a.m. CST ahead the first of two maneuvers

Nov 22, 2022

Advanced Space awarded contract to deliver AFRL’s mission to the Moon

Westminster CO (SPX) Nov 21, 2022 - Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, announced that the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, as part of a collaborative effort with AFRL's Trans

Nov 21, 2022

NASA Moon mission ‘exceeding’ expectations

Washington (AFP) Nov 19, 2022 - On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is exceeding performance expectations, NASA officials said on Friday.

Nov 19, 2022

ispace Announces Mission 1 Launch Date

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 - ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, plans to launch its Mission 1 (M1) lunar lander, part of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program, on Nov. 28, 2022, at the earliest, on a SpaceX Falc

Nov 18, 2022

Humanity to go back to the moon. Ukrainian contribution to the space science

Kyiv, Ukraine (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 - November 16, 2022, was a big day for all space industry fans. Artemis I, a first mission to the Moon after a break that lasted over 53 years, is finally launched. And while the eyes of millions were

Nov 18, 2022

iSpace reaches agreement with Mitsui Sumitomo to become first user of commercial lunar insurance

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 - Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. (MSI), a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan, has reached an agreement with ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar explorati

Nov 18, 2022

NASA, Japan announce Gateway contributions, Space Station extension

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 - NASA and the Government of Japan on Thursday announced further contributions by Japan to Gateway, a key component of the agency's Artemis missions for long-term lunar exploration. NASA Administrator

Nov 18, 2022

Looking to Artemis I for a return to the moon

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 - On Nov. 16, NASA successfully launched the Artemis I mission after several launch delays. Artemis I is an uncrewed test flight featuring a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send the Orion s

Nov 17, 2022

LunIR joins CAPSTONE as 2nd Terran built Lunar satellite to launch this year

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Nov 16, 2022 - Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced the successful launch of LunIR. The Moon-m

Nov 16, 2022