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DARPA Selects Performers for Phase 1 of Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) Program
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
Rapid maneuver is a core tenet of modern Department of Defense (DoD) operations on land, at sea, and in the air. However, rapid maneuver in the space domain has...
Lunar brightness temperature for calibration of microwave humidity sounders
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
The deep space view of the Microwave Humidity Sounder onboard NOAA-18 has viewed the Moon many times every year. Under solar illumination, the lunar surface sho...
China's Chang'e 4 probe resumes work for 29th lunar day
Apr 08, 2021 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 9:43 pm Tuesday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 3:54 am Tuesday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Sp...
NASA aims to wow public with landing video, images
Apr 02, 2021 (UPI)
Grainy delayed footage -- sometimes only in black and white -- was a hallmark of the first Apollo moon landing in 1969. But even that captured 650 million viewe...
Gateway's propulsion system passes first test
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
NASA, along with Maxar Technologies and Busek Co., successfully completed a test of the 6-kilowatt (kW) solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem destined for t...
South Korea aims for moon landing vehicle by 2030
Mar 26, 2021 (UPI)
President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that his goal is to ensure South Korea has a launch vehicle capable of landing on the moon by 2030 and to help local enterpr...
Engine of Atlantis
Mar 26, 2021 (ESA)
This engine belonged to Space Shuttle Atlantis, and is one of five refurbished engines to be paired with the first five European Service Modules. Technicians ca...
China's lunar rover travels 682 meters on far side of moon
Mar 24, 2021 (XNA)
The lander was switched to dormant mode at 2 a.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 5:09 p.m. Saturday, said the center. The Chan...
China plans to build research station on moon's south pole: chief designer
Mar 16, 2021 (XNA)
In an interview with China Space News, Wu said that three missions are planned for the fourth phase of the lunar exploration program. The program includes the r...
Skoltech and MIT explore human landing system architectures for Moon landings
Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)
Ever since December 1972, when the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface, humans have been eager to return to the Moon. In 2017, the US government launched t...
A dose of Moonlight
Mar 11, 2021 (ESA)
Orange Dosis-3D pouches are everywhere in the Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. A series of active and passive dosimeters, they measure sp...
China, Russia to jointly build lunar post
Mar 10, 2021 (XNA)
The administration said in a statement on Tuesday evening that its head, Zhang Kejian, and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Rogozin, director-general of State Sp...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as 'modern global insurance policy'
Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)
Thanga and a group of his undergraduate and graduate students outline the lunar ark concept, which they call a "modern global insurance policy," in a paper pres...
Planetary pact: China and Russia to launch lunar space station
Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)
Though Moscow was once at the forefront of space travel -- it sent the first man into space -- its cosmic ambitions have dimmed thanks to poor financing and end...
Moving into Cislunar Space
Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)
In particular, national security space operations that are in cislunar space could lead to interference with military proximity operations. Judging from several...
China's Chang'e 4 lander and rover resume work for 28th lunar day
Mar 09, 2021 (XNA)
Landing on the moon on Jan. 3, 2019, the Chang'e 4 probe has survived 795 Earth days on the moon, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China Na...
Lockheed Martin And NEC Put AI To Work On Programs Like NASA's Artemis Mission
Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)
"The power of AI is leveraged across our entire enterprise, and with a trusted partner like NEC, we gain the resources to expand its abilities at scale across o...
NASA, Navy test diving technology that could be used on the moon
Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)
Divers from the Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving joined the NASA team at the Sonny Carter Training Facility in Houston between Feb. ...
Canada to join US mission to moon
Feb 26, 2021 (XNA)
"It's official!" Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne tweeted. "Canada will join the US on the first crewed mission...
TTTech Aerospace and RUAG Space selected by Maxar to supply TTEthernet network platform for NASA's Gateway
Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)
"Maxar completed the Systems Requirements Review for PPE, and we are now beginning to contract our sub-suppliers. We chose TTTech Aerospace because they can pro...
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