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Blue Ghost Advances Lunar Mission Milestones
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
One of the mission's key technology demonstrations, the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), jointly developed by NASA and the Italian Space Agency, has alre...
Finland signs on to Artemis Accords
Jan 22, 2025 (UPI)
The signing happened during the Winter Satellite Workshop in Espoo, Finland. The country's Economic Affairs Minister Wille Rydman said Finland has participated ...
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots - here's why
Jan 21, 2025 (SPX)
For the Artemis program astronauts, walking on the Moon will require new ways of thinking, the latest technology and innovative approaches to improve boot and s...
Snooping science on the Moon
Jan 20, 2025 (SPX)
As humanity intensifies efforts to return to the Moon, the south pole has emerged as a focal point due to its water ice deposits found within shadowed craters. ...
The Moon a remnant of Earth's mantle
Jan 17, 2025 (SPX)
To arrive at these conclusions, the team analyzed oxygen isotopes from 14 lunar samples and conducted 191 measurements on Earth's minerals. Isotopes, which are ...
Arweave Genesis Block embarks on Lunar preservation mission
Jan 16, 2025 (SPX)
The innovative molecular storage technology, developed by Iridia, encodes the Genesis Block in synthetic DNA. Iridia's breakthrough storage solution boasts exce...
Private US, Japanese lunar landers launch on single rocket
Jan 15, 2025 (AFP)
On board the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida were Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience from Japa...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 begins transit to the Moon
Jan 15, 2025 (SPX)
Dubbed Ghost Riders in the Sky, Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, ...
US, Japanese lunar landers set to launch on single rocket
Jan 15, 2025 (AFP)
SpaceX is targeting a 1:11 am (0611 GMT) Wednesday liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with very favorable weather conditions...
SwRI sends first instrument to the Moon to study its interior
Jan 14, 2025 (SPX)
"For more than 50 years, scientists have used magnetotellurics on Earth for a wide variety of purposes, including to find oil, water, geothermal and mineral res...
NASA and Italian Space Agency test future Lunar navigation technology
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payload, a joint effort between NASA and th...
Nokia's cellular network to enable Lunar mission connectivity as Intuitive Machines completes integration
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
Collaborating with Nokia Bell Labs, Intuitive Machines engineers performed rigorous testing and installation of the LSCS "network in a box" on Athena's carbon-c...
NASA lander will demonstrate vacuum-based lunar Sample collection
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
Developed by Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company based in Altadena, California, LPV employs a pneumatic, compressed gas-powered system to collect and trans...
Japan startup hopeful ahead of second moon launch
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
In April 2023, the firm's first spacecraft made an unsalvageable "hard landing", dashing its ambitions to be the first private company to touch down on the Moon...
US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for Moon next week
Jan 08, 2025 (AFP)
If successful, it would mark only the second time an American robot has touched down on the lunar surface since the end of the Apollo era. "Buckle up! Our road ...
Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025
Dec 31, 2024 (SPX)
Artemis II will utilize NASA's Space Launch System, which is an extremely powerful rocket that will enable human space exploration beyond Earth's atmosphere. Th...
China allocates lunar samples for new research projects
Dec 31, 2024 (SPX)
A total of 8,550.4 milligrams of lunar samples will be distributed among 18 researchers representing 16 institutions, including the China University of Geoscien...
Robot with charging features to support China's 2028 Lunar program
Dec 27, 2024 (SPX)
A collaboration between Dalian University of Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Shenzhen University has led to the creation of a ve...
Characterizing visual challenges for astronauts at the Lunar South Pole
Dec 27, 2024 (SPX)
Unlike previous lunar missions, the Sun at the LSP remains low on the horizon, peaking at a mere 7 elevation. This constant low-angle illumination creates harsh...
ispace-EUROPE and ISA partner to deliver advanced reflector technology to the moon
Dec 27, 2024 (SPX)
The partnership represents the first comprehensive contract between ispace-EUROPE and ASI, paving the way for future joint lunar initiatives. LaRA2, a compact a...
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