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Mission X 2020 Walk to the Moon challenge is open!
Jan 15, 2020 (ESA)
The perfect project for school teachers of pupils between 8 and 12 years old, Mission X is also ideal for educators who run science clubs, youth and community g...
New moon rover tested in Lunar Operations Lab
Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)
About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon's South Pole looking for water ice in the region and for the first time ev...
China's lunar rover travels over 357 meters on moon's far side
Jan 06, 2020 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 13th lunar day on Thursday (Beijing time), and switched to dormant mode for t...
India says it will try again to land on moon
Jan 02, 2020 (UPI)
The Chandrayaan-3 space mission, set to take place no later than early 2021, will include an upgraded space vehicle with a new propulsion module, moon lander an...
India targets new moon mission in 2020
Jan 01, 2020 (AFP)
Work is going "smoothly" on the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put a rover probe on the moon's surface, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K. Sivan told a pr...
Russia, US to discuss Lunar Gateway Station next spring
Dec 27, 2019 (Sputnik)
"[It will happen] closer to the spring, I think. We looked at all the pros and cons based on the interest in maintaining station and its non-stop work," Rogozin...
A box of Apollo lunar soil
Dec 24, 2019 (SPX)
Now, the future that Apollo-era scientists envisioned has come. Their successors, many of whom weren't even born when the last astronauts scooped up the Moon sa...
Macao's moon, planetary lab to boost China's deep space exploration
Dec 24, 2019 (SPX)
During the opening ceremony, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) Wu Yanhua also announced that the CNSA would set up Macao Space Ex...
Russian astronauts will face weight restrictions for Moon mission program
Dec 16, 2019 (Sputnik)
Overweight Russian astronauts won't be able to take part in the country's lunar mission aboard the Oryol space ship due to restrictions on the total weight of c...
China's lunar rover travels over 345 meters on moon's far side
Dec 05, 2019 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 12th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night, the Lunar E...
NASA finds Indian Moon lander with help of amateur space enthusiast
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
NASA made the announcement on Monday, releasing an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact (Septem...
India's Vikram lunar lander found in LRO images
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilometers from the south pole; unfortunately the Indian Space Research Organ...
NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
For NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative - which is leading the effort - this is no new concept. NASA has already awarded commercial contr...
Small satellites key to NASA's lunar search for water
Nov 26, 2019 (UPI)
Often, rockets carrying larger payloads into space aren't at maximum capacity. Until fairly recently, that extra capacity went wasted. But over the last two dec...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 12th lunar day
Nov 25, 2019 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 5:03 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 0:51 a.m. the same day. Both are in normal working orde...
Israel's next attempt at lunar lander within 3 years says SpaceIL founder
Nov 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
But, above all, he wants to make a difference and inspire Israeli kids to dream big. It took them 8 years and some $100 millions until Beresheet, Israel's first...
NASA certifies SLS Rocket Laboratory to test flight software for Artemis I
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
"The System Integration Lab's test environment is the most accurate representation of the rocket's entire avionics and software system," said Dan Mitchell, lead...
New Companies Join Growing Ranks of NASA Partners for Artemis Program
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
The additions, which increase the list of CLPS participants on contract to 14, expand NASA's work with U.S. industry to build a strong marketplace to deliver pa...
Olivine-norite rock detected by Yutu-2 likely crystallized from the SPA impact melt pool
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
Chang'E-4 landed in the SPA Basin, providing a unique chance for in situ probing the composition of the lunar interior. The landing site is located on ejecta st...
India aims for next Moon landing attempt by November 2020
Nov 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
India is gearing up to launch its third lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' by November 2020 as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started preparing fo...
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