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Britain backs Rolls Royce effort to develop micro-reactor to power moon base

Mar 17, 2023 (UPI)

Announcing $3.5 million funding for Roll Royce research into how nuclear could be used to power a manned base on the moon, the U.K. Space Agency said the techno...

NASA begins building its first robotic Lunar rover

Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)

"I'm super excited...it makes me very proud of all the time and effort the team has invested to get this far," said David Petri, system integration and test lea...

NASA appoints Lunar science leads for Artemis 3 and 4

Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)

Noah Petro, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been named the project scientist for Artemis III, which, in 2025, is scheduled to ...

Firefly awarded payload delivery contract to Lunar Orbit and Lunar Far Side

Mar 15, 2023 (SPX)

"Our second lunar mission is something we're celebrating as a Firefly team, as a NASA commercial provider, and most importantly, as an all-American company comm...

Mix-and-match kit could enable astronauts to build a menagerie of lunar exploration bots

Mar 15, 2023 (SPX)

To avoid a bottleneck of bots, a team of MIT engineers is designing a kit of universal robotic parts that an astronaut could easily mix and match to rapidly con...

Prototype spacesuit for future NASA mission to Moon unveiled

Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)

The suit revealed at an event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston features greater flexibility and thermal protection than those worn by the Apollo astronaut...

The first of a new generation of lunar 'astronauts' return to Cologne

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

"Human spaceflight is developing rapidly. In the future, there will likely be commercial space stations built in low-Earth orbits on which people will work and ...

NASA to reveal crew members in April for flight around Moon

Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3. "Astronauts -- three from America and one f...

Lonestar successfully completes $5m in oversubscribed seed financing

Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)

"We are thrilled to have completed this successful seed round and are sincerely grateful for the support and vision of our investors," said Chris Stott, CEO of ...

Department of Energy and NASA join forces on innovative lunar experiment

Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)

The instrument is named the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment - Night (LuSEE-Night), a collaboration between DOE's Brookhaven and Lawrence Berkeley Nati...

Upcoming Artemis II plans on track, NASA says

Mar 07, 2023 (UPI)

NASA held a teleconference on Tuesday to discuss the findings from the unmanned mission that launched on Nov. 16 for a 25 day mission to orbit the moon. The mes...

UK companies to provide services for future Moon missions

Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)

This will allow future astronauts, rovers, science experiments and other equipment to communicate, share large amounts of data including high-definition video, ...

Flat, pancake-sized metalens images lunar surface in an engineering first

Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)

Metalenses comprise tiny, antenna-like surface patterns that can focus light to magnify distant objects in the same way as traditional curved glass lenses, but ...

NASA delivers hardware for commercial lunar payload mission

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

In the United States, we rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) - a satellite constellation orbiting Earth that provides precise location and timing inform...

First ever Canadian lunar rover will hunt for water ice on the moon

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

Rovers are simply "mobile robotic vehicles that allow us to explore the surfaces of other planets," explains Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth ...

University Teams forge forward in NASA Moon metal production challenge

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

The awards total about $1.1 million, with values between $120,000 and $180,000 based on each team's proposed concept. The challenge is a unique collaboration be...

Liquid nitrogen spray could clean up stubborn moon dust

Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

The sprayer removed more than 98% of moon dust simulant in a vacuum environment with minimal damage to spacesuits, performing better than any techniques that ha...

ESA invites space firms to create lunar services

Feb 28, 2023 (ESA)

Some 250 missions to the Moon are due to launch over the next decade alone, according to market analysists Northern Sky Research, which the company predicts wil...

China releases Chang'e-4 payloads' scientific datasets

Feb 20, 2023 (XNA)

The datasets include 3,991.1 MB of 803 data files obtained by the four scientific payloads on the Chang'e-4 lander and rover between December 26, 2021 and Janua...

Chandrayaan-3 undergoes EMI/EMC test successfully

Feb 20, 2023 (SPX)

This test is crucial for satellite missions as it ensures the satellite subsystems' functionality in the space environment and their compatibility with the expe...