Guildford UK (SPX) May 21, 2021 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead a Phase A/B1 Study under ESA's Moonlight initiative that will shape the service provision and infr
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 21, 2021 - NASA has awarded $500,000 to seven winning teams in Phase 1 of the agency's Watts on the Moon Challenge. The technology design competition challenged U.S. innovators, from garage tinkerers to univer
Paris (ESA) May 21, 2021 - A bold proposal to create a commercially viable constellation of lunar satellites has taken a step closer. Two consortia of companies will be supported by ESA to devise detailed definitions of
London, UK (SPX) May 21, 2021 - In what will be the world's first commercial servicing of its kind, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Inmarsat and MDA UK are among those who won contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA)
Washington DC (UPI) May 20, 2021 - The European Space Agency plans to build a communications and navigation network of satellites around the moon to aid future missions, including NASA's planned Artemis astronaut crews.
Paris (ESA) May 19, 2021 - The pieces are stacking up for the launch of Artemis 1 mission around the Moon and back. The massive Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewless test flight of the Orion sp
Orlando FL (UPI) May 19, 2021 - NASA scientists, as well as astronomers around the world, plan to install lunar observatories in the next few years to peer into the universe's ancient past - just after the Big Bang. Science
Washington DC (UPI) May 12, 2021 - Scientists have managed to grow plants in lunar soil for the first time ever, setting the stage for astronauts to potentially grow their own food on the moon during future missions.
Cleveland OH (SPX) May 11, 2021 - Before NASA's next lunar rover paves the way for long-term human exploration of the Moon, it must first pass a series of rigorous mobility tests along the banks of Lake Erie. The Simulated Lun
Fayetteville AK (SPX) May 05, 2021 - A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2021 - Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter or redder, for example, due to its phases, its position in the solar system or smoke in Earth
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2021 - American astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to walk on the Moon, died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family said.
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2021 - Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, on Monday filed a protest against NASA's choice of rival SpaceX to build the module that will land the next US astronauts on the Moon.
Nanjing (XNA) Apr 24, 2021 - China and Russia's aerospace authorities have invited all interested countries, international organizations and partners to cooperate in a moon station project. The announcement was made by th
London, UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - There could be as many as 15 Moon Trees in the UK - trees grown from seeds flown around the Moon by NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. But where are they now? The Royal As
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2021 - Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a $2.9 billion contract to develop the company's Starship rocket as a lunar lander to carry astronauts on Artemis moon missions, NASA announced Friday.
