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NASA Names Winners in Lunar Gateway Packing and Storing Challenge
Mar 05, 2024 (SPX)
To help address the issue, the Lunar Gateway Cargo Packing and Storing Challenge invited the public to devise innovative stowage solutions for NASA's Gateway De...
NASA largely satisfied with Intuitive Machines lunar deliveries despite 'challenges'
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
Odysseus' journey to the lunar surface, commencing with a launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, culminated in a successful soft landing near Malapert A crater...
Could fiber optic cable help scientists probe the deep layers of the moon?
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
In Seismological Research Letters, Wenbo Wu of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and colleagues explore the idea of deploying a fiber seismic network on the Mo...
Japan Moon lander put to sleep after surviving lunar night
Mar 02, 2024 (AFP)
The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down in January at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way. As the sun's a...
Lights out for wonky US lunar lander, for now
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
Houston-based Intuitive Machines posted a picture that was captured by Odysseus on February 22, the day it touched down near the south pole. But the image was o...
NASA Challenges Students to Innovate with Inflatable Technologies for Lunar Missions
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
The theme for this year's challenge, Inflatable Systems for Lunar Operations, encouraged participants to submit a wide array of technology concepts. These range...
China Reports Progress on Manned Lunar Program with Development of Key Technologies
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
Central to these efforts is the development of the Long March-10 rocket. This new carrier rocket is specifically designed to launch spacecraft and moon landers ...
As mission ends, US lunar lander could still 'wake' back up
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
But while the mission that saw the first ever Moon landing by a private company is coming to an end, Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus told reporters that th...
To the Moon and back: NASA's Artemis II crew rehearses splashdown
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
Over the past week, the three Americans and one Canadian chosen for the historic Moon mission have been training at sea with the US Navy off the coast of Califo...
NASA and SpaceX complete docking system tests for Lunar Starship Lander
Feb 29, 2024 (SPX)
The Artemis III mission, a cornerstone of NASA's lunar exploration strategy, will see astronauts journeying from Earth aboard the Orion spacecraft to lunar orbi...
ILOA receives first lunar surface and descent images from ILO-X
Feb 29, 2024 (SPX)
"We are very appreciative of Intuitive Machines and our ILO-X payload developer / contractor Canadensys Aerospace Corporation for their professionalism and pers...
Korea simulates Moon's electrostatic surface conditions on Earth
Feb 28, 2024 (SPX)
This pioneering research, led by Dr. Shin Hyusoung along with senior researcher Chung Taeil and Dr. Park Seungsoo, aims to replicate the Moon's surface conditio...
Odysseus moon lander mission cut short after botched landing
Feb 27, 2024 (UPI)
Intuitive Machines, the Houston space company that built the unmanned Odysseus, said it planned to collect data "until the lander's solar panels are no longer e...
NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust
Feb 27, 2024 (SPX)
The Electrostatic Regolith Interaction Experiment (ERIE) was one of 14 NASA-supported payloads launched on Dec. 19 aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard uncrewed roc...
New realistic computer model will help robots collect Moon dust
Feb 27, 2024 (SPX)
Working with their industry partner, Thales Alenia Space in the UK, who has specific interest in creating working robotic systems for space applications, the te...
US Moon lander's battery likely has hours left: company
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
The uncrewed Odysseus, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, made the first return by a US craft to the Moon in five decades -- and the first such successf...
Terran Orbital's Nanosatellite Surpasses 450 Days in Lunar Service for NASA
Feb 26, 2024 (SPX)
Launched on June 28, 2022, the CAPSTONE nanosatellite is built on Terran Orbital's proven Voyager platform, which has showcased remarkable stability and perform...
Chang'e Lunar missions to benefit from new relay satellite launch
Feb 26, 2024 (SPX)
Queqiao 2, the successor to Queqiao 1, is designed to facilitate communication between Earth and China's lunar probes, including Chang'e 4, Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7...
Japan's SLIM moon responds after outlasting 'lunar night'
Feb 26, 2024 (UPI)
The Japanese space agency said on social media minutes after 12 a.m. local time that after sending a command to the machine, known as SLIM, a response had unexp...
Sideways American lander sends first images back from Moon
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
The uncrewed Odysseus, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, returned the United States to Earth's cosmic neighbor last week after a five-decade absence, i...
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