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Swedish instrument has landed on the moon
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
It is an historic event as it is the first time a spacecraft is landing on the far side of the Moon. It is also the second time Swedish instrumentation is used ...
Breathtaking 12 minutes for Chang'e-4's landing
Jan 04, 2019 (XNA)
Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, said Chang'e-3 landed on the Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, on the moon's near side, whic...
Chang'e-4 lands on largest crater in solar system
Jan 04, 2019 (XNA)
The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at the preselected landing area at 177.6 degrees east longitude and 45.5 degrees south latitude on the far si...
Chinese rover 'Jade Rabbit' drives on far side of the moon
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown...
China's Chang'e-4 probe changes orbit to prepare for moon-landing
Jan 02, 2019 (XNA)
The probe has entered an elliptical lunar orbit, with the perilune at about 15 km and the apolune at about 100 km, at 8:55 a.m. Beijing Time, said CNSA. Since t...
Women will make up to half of Russia-US Moon flight simulation crew
Jan 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
"On 9-10 January [2019], there will be a medical commission that will select 10 people, who will begin their training starting from January 14. The crew will co...
China spacecraft in position for first-ever landing on Moon's far side
Jan 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
In entering its planned orbit on Sunday, the Chinese spacecraft will "prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon," stated the China Nat...
Getting a glimpse inside the moon
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
The answer, said physicist Mathieu Dumberry, lies in the complex geometry of the Moon's orbit, locked in what is known as a Cassini state. "The Moon goes around...
Israeli spacecraft gets special passenger before moon journey
Dec 17, 2018 (AFP)
A time capsule of three digital discs containing thousands of files was ceremoniously placed within the space pod by organisers wearing white dust coats at the ...
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems to land astronauts on Moon
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
Through upcoming multi-phased lunar exploration partnerships, NASA will ask American companies to study the best approach to landing astronauts on the Moon and ...
Learning from lunar lights
Dec 10, 2018 (ESA)
Impact flashes are referred to as 'transient lunar phenomena', because although common, they are fleeting occurrences, lasting just fractions of a second. This ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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