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ESA supports Indian lunar and solar missions

Mar 30, 2022 (ESA)

ESA's global deep-space communication antennas will provide essential support to both missions every step of the way, tracking the spacecraft, pinpointing their...

Satellites around the Moon come another step closer

Mar 30, 2022 (ESA)

The agency has now evaluated initial ideas to create a network of lunar telecommunications and navigation satellites. Creating a commercial telecommunications a...

Koons on the Moon -- sculptures to be placed on lunar surface

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

Koons, one of the most celebrated and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as "Ballon Dog" and "Rabbit," and his work is exhibited in galle...

Winning rovers of lunar polar challenge

Mar 29, 2022 (ESA)

The winning teams are: + ETH Zurich and University of Zurich (Switzerland) + Mission Control Space Services (Canada) + Lukasiewicz - PIAP (Poland) + FZI Forschu...

AFRL CISLunar highway patrol system seeks industry collaboration

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

A draft Request for Proposals was posted last week, on the NSTXL.org website, and companies who are part of the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) are encourage...

NASA provides update to astronaut moon lander plans under Artemis

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

Under this new approach, NASA is asking American companies to propose lander concepts capable of ferrying astronauts between lunar orbit and the lunar surface f...

Lunar Swirl Patterns and Topography Are Related, Study Finds

Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)

"This is the first time there has been a demonstrated correlation between the swirl albedo patterns and topography," said PSI Senior Scientist Deborah Domingue,...

Lunar scientists and engineers design Moon cave explorer

Mar 17, 2022 (ESA)

The Moon is dotted with pits that scientists think could lead to huge underground tunnels. But a space mission has never been sent to explore what could lie wit...

NASA opens sample taken from the Moon 50 years on

Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)

For all that time, some tubes were kept sealed so that they could be studied years later, with the help of the latest technical breakthroughs. NASA knew "scienc...

Team chosen to make first oxygen on the Moon

Mar 10, 2022 (ESA)

The compact payload will need to extract 50-100 grams of oxygen from lunar regolith - targeting 70% extraction of all available oxygen within the sample - while...

Buzz Aldrin's famous 1969 moon walk picture sells at auction

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

The Aldrin image, which fetched 5,373 euros, shows the astronaut on the surface of the moon in July 1969 during the first manned lunar landing. It was famously ...

WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected the sample from the site of an ancient landslide in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley. The astr...

First photos from the Moon under the hammer in Denmark

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

"One of my favourite photos from this fantastic collection depicts a photo of Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong, and you can actually see Neil Armstrong being...

NASA expands research into mining lunar ice, minerals to sustain humans on the moon

Mar 08, 2022 (UPI)

NASA wants to be ready to mine whatever it finds when it lands, probably on the South Pole of the moon, for upcoming missions, according to Jerry Sanders, an ag...

Probe to look for water on moon

Mar 08, 2022 (XNA)

"The Chang'e 7 mission is set to find traces of ice at the south pole, investigate the environment and weather there, and survey its landforms," said Wu Weiren,...

NASA Studies 'New' 50-Year-Old Lunar Sample to Prep for Return to Moon

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

The sample is being opened at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston by the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES), which safeguards, s...

HSE University researchers discover what happens on the bright side of the moon

Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)

In space, the Moon is surrounded by plasma (ionized gas), which contains solid-matter dust particles. On the lunar surface, dust particles, impacted by solar wi...

NASA opens second phase of $5 Million Lunar Power Prize Competition

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

The newest phase of NASA's Watts on the Moon Challenge offers up to $4.5 million in prizes to design, build, and demonstrate a prototype that addresses technolo...

Thales Alenia Space wins study contract to develop payload to extract Oxygen on the Moon

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

For a sustainable habitation on the Moon, humans will need to utilise resources that they find on the Moon rather than transport these resources from Earth; one...

MIT Lunar Station Corp helps support safe lunar missions

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

Strategically, the Moon has something essential for life in space: water. Lunar ice can supply oxygen for human life and hydrogen fuel for deep space travel. Bu...