Houston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 - NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the
Seattle WA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 - Xplore reports it has won an Air Force award to study positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for cislunar space. The award category, for commercial and technical innovations between the
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 - NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 - On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what was intended
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 06, 2020 - Tuesday night's full moon will be the biggest of the year, as the moon is quite close to its perigee, its closest approach to Earth.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2020 - Augmented reality, also known as AR, is a powerful tool that engineers are using to enable NASA to send humans to the Moon under the agency's Artemis program. Lockheed Martin, lead contractor for NA
Beijing (XNA) Apr 02, 2020 - China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has driven 424.455 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 30, 2020 - The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers have foun
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2020 - NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency'
Paris (ESA) Mar 30, 2020 - The Orion spacecraft that will fly on the Artemis 1 mission around the Moon has returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, after finishing space environment tests. The spacecraft, incl
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 - NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis I returned to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 25 after engineers put it through the rigors of environmental testing at NASA's Plum Brook Sta
Paris (ESA) Mar 26, 2020 - ESA is preparing a surface sampling payload that will prospect for lunar water among other resources. It is due to be flown to the Moon aboard Russia's Luna-27 lander in 2025. Researcher Hanna
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 25, 2020 - Future Artemis lunar landers could use next-generation thrusters, the small rocket engines used to make alterations in a spacecraft's flight path or altitude, to enter lunar orbit and descend to the
Plum Brook Station OH (SPX) Mar 25, 2020 - After four months of rigorous testing in the world's premier space environments simulation facility at NASA's Plum Brook Station, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission is certified and anot
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 24, 2020 - Russian scholars previously said that Russia would be launching a space vehicle to the Moon in October 2021 - for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia plans to create
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 - The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Acad
