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Mission Control to Develop Lunar Surface Autonomous Science Payload for CSA
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
ASAS-CRATERS leverages cutting-edge AI algorithms for terrain classification, novelty detection, and data aggregation, and will advance a planetary rover's capa...
Digging into the far side of the moon: Chang'E-4 probes 40 meters into lunar surface
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
Chang'E-4 (CE-4) landed on the eastern floor of the Van Karman crater, near the Moon's south pole, on Jan. 3, 2019. The spacecraft immediately deployed its Yutu...
NASA CubeSats play big role in lunar exploration
Feb 26, 2020 (SPX)
Advancements in consumer electronics and miniaturized sensors enable small spacecraft to be powerful tools for space exploration. "A number of things have coale...
Earth has new, but temporary, natural moon
Feb 26, 2020 (UPI)
The group announced the discovery of 2020 CD3 in an update this week. "Orbit integrations ... indicate that this object is temporarily bound to the Earth," astr...
NASA asks Commercial Moon Delivery Partners to fly rover to search for water ice
Feb 26, 2020 (SPX)
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample various soil environments. It wil...
Vice President, Administrator visit NASA Langley for Artemis Update
Feb 21, 2020 (SPX)
"It's an honor to be among men and women who will play a decisive role when in four years' time we return American astronauts to the Moon and make sure the firs...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 15th lunar day
Feb 19, 2020 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing time), and the rover awoke at 5:55 p.m. Monday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Explor...
NASA selects university teams to build technologies for the Moon's darkest areas
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Through the competitive Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge and the Space Grant project, NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to eight...
NASA awards contract to launch Lunar CubeSat
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Rocket Lab, a commercial launch provider licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, will launch the 55-pound CubeSat aboard an Electron rocket from NASA's...
NASA to hire more Artemis generation astronauts
Feb 12, 2020 (SPX)
Since the 1960s, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut candidates for its increasingly challenging missions to explore space. With 48 astronauts in...
NASA Administrator Statement on Moon to Mars Initiative, FY 2021 Budget
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
"The budget proposed represents a 12 percent increase and makes this one of the strongest budgets in NASA history. The reinforced support from the President com...
NASA commits to returning astronauts to the moon by 2024
Feb 11, 2020 (UPI)
"We are ushering in an unprecedented era of human spaceflight," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who heads America's space agency, said Monday while introduc...
One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies
Feb 10, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, scientists found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the Moon's soil using a single grain of dust. Their ...
NASA to Industry: Send Ideas for Lunar Rovers
Feb 07, 2020 (SPX)
NASA issued two separate Requests for Information (RFI) seeking industry approaches for development of robotic mobility systems and human-class lunar rovers. Wi...
China's lunar rover travels 367 meters on moon's far side
Feb 05, 2020 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe ended their work for the 14th lunar day on Saturday (Beijing Time), and switched to dormant mode for the lu...
One step closer to prospecting the Moon
Feb 03, 2020 (ESA)
The main goal of the Luna-27 lander is to study the composition of the soil near the lunar south pole. Water is a key target: there may be concentrations of fro...
Moonstruck: Japan billionaire cancels hunt for lunar love
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first priv...
AFRL And Blue Origin partner on test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine development
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
Capital improvements, funded by Blue Origin, will allow BE-7 testing in a simulated space-like environment. Planned work includes adding liquid hydrogen (LH2) a...
First commercial Moon delivery assignments to will advance Artemis
Jan 26, 2020 (SPX)
In May 2019, the agency awarded two orders for scientific payload delivery to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines, with both flights targeted to land on the Moon ...
ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondust
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lom...
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