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Image-based navigation could help spacecraft safely land on the moon
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
In research recently published in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, a multidisciplinary team of engineers demonstrated how a series of lunar images ca...
Israel sets sights on 2024 unmanned moon landing
Dec 09, 2020 (AFP)
The original Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis", was a tall, oddly shaped 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) spacecraft built by Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel...
NASA outlines science goals for future astronauts on Moon
Dec 07, 2020 (AFP)
One of the goals will be to bring back a total of 85 kilograms (187 pounds) of lunar samples, both from the surface and sub-surface, more than the average 64 ki...
Chang'e 5 mission completes difficult docking in lunar orbit
Dec 06, 2020 (XNA)
The rendezvous and docking took place between the probe's ascender and reentry capsule without external assistance from navigation satellites. The ascender then...
China completes its first-ever docking in lunar orbit
Dec 06, 2020 (AFP)
The manoeuvre was part of the ambitious Chang'e-5 mission -- named after a mythical Chinese Moon goddess -- to bring back the first lunar samples in four decade...
China unfurls its first fabric flag on moon
Dec 04, 2020 (UPI)
China brought two flags on previous missions, but the one left Thursday was the first one made of fabric, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. said. T...
Chinese lunar probe on way back to Earth
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing is looking to catch up with the US and Russia after taking decades to match its rivals' achievements and has poured billions into its military-run space...
VIPER's Many Brains are Better than One
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
As it drives across the Moon, VIPER will effectively do its thinking from both its on-board flight software as well as from ground software running from mission...
Chinese probe completes moon sampling
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
China has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and eventually sending humans to the Moon. ...
NASA chooses 4 firms for first private lunar sample collection
Dec 03, 2020 (UPI)
The missions would be the first time a private company has collected samples from another planetary body, and the first time ownership of an object would be tra...
NASA confirms SIMPLEx Mission Small Satellite to blaze trails studying Lunar surface
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
On Nov. 24, the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, passed its Key Decisio...
Chinese robot probe lands on Moon to gather lunar samples
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sending humans to the M...
Chinese probe lands on Moon to gather lunar samples
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sending humans to the M...
China's lunar probe lands on Moon: Xinhua
Dec 01, 2020 (AFP)
China has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sending humans to the Moo...
China's Chang'e-5 probe prepares to land on moon
Dec 01, 2020 (XNA)
The lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft separated from its orbiter-returner combination at 4:40 am Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China Natio...
Turning Moon dust into oxygen
Nov 30, 2020 (ESA)
It could be an early step to establishing an extra-terrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This would help to enable exploration and sustain life on the Moon while...
Chang'e 5 probe successfully enters lunar orbit
Nov 29, 2020 (XNA)
The administration said in a statement that a 3,000-newton-thrust engine on the spacecraft was activated at 8:58 pm and worked about 17 minutes when the probe r...
China to build lunar research station prototype: scientist
Nov 27, 2020 (XNA)
The prototype, which will consist of multiple detectors operating in lunar orbit and on the lunar surface, will be capable of conducting scientific and technolo...
Experts expect major contributions from Chang'e 5 lunar mission
Nov 25, 2020 (XNA)
He said following China's extremely successful Chang'e 4 mission to the moon's far side, lunar samples collected by Chang'e 5 will make "further important contr...
Yutu 2 rover still operating on far side of moon
Nov 25, 2020 (XNA)
The second Chinese lunar rover, Yutu 2 is part of the ongoing Chang'e 4 mission, humanity's first endeavor to land on and closely observe the far side of the mo...
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