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NASA offers $7B in contracts to accelerate work towards 2024 Moon landing target
Aug 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
NASA is offering $7 billion to take the first steps for an accelerated US return to the lunar surface within five years, writes Bloomberg Business. The proposal...
Chandrayaan-2's Third Lunar-Bound Orbit Manoeuvre Performed Successfully: ISRO
Aug 29, 2019 (IANS)
"The manoeuvre was performed successfully Wednesday beginning at 9:04 hours IST, using the on-board propulsion system. The duration of the exercise was 1,190 se...
Chandrayaan-2 Captures First Image of Moon Showing Mare Orientale Basin, Apollo Craters
Aug 27, 2019 (IANS)
"Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height of about 2650 km from Lunar surface on August 21, 2019. Mare Orie...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar day
Aug 27, 2019 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 8:10 a.m. Sunday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 8:42 a.m. Saturday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program...
NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the Moon
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
NASA is engaging the university community for ideas to help achieve some of these activities through its annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG)...
Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar caves
Aug 22, 2019 (ESA)
While the surface of the Moon has been well-documented with cameras on board several satellite missions, relatively little is known about the presence and natur...
Thomas Pesquet on a new underwater lunar adventure
Aug 21, 2019 (ESA)
Testing new technology, tools, techniques and training programmes for space exploration starts on Earth and space agencies head to extreme environments to put t...
Astrobotic selects United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Rocket for its first Moon mission
Aug 21, 2019 (SPX)
"We are so excited to sign with ULA and fly Peregrine on Vulcan Centaur. This contract with ULA was the result of a highly competitive commercial process, and w...
MDA selected to build robotic interfaces for Canadarm3 on Lunar Gateway
Aug 21, 2019 (SPX)
The Gateway External Robotic Interfaces will act as critical touch points for the eXploration Large Arm (XLA) and the eXploration Dexterous Arm (XDA), the major...
India's Moon probe enters lunar orbit
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
After four weeks in space, the craft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement. The inse...
NASA asks American companies to deliver supplies for Artemis Lunar missions
Aug 20, 2019 (SPX)
Commercial supply services will support the agency's Artemis lunar exploration program which includes sending the first woman and the next man to surface of the...
NASA Marshall to lead Artemis Program's human lunar lander development
Aug 19, 2019 (SPX)
"Marshall Space Flight Center is the birthplace of America's space program. It was Marshall scientists and engineers who designed, built, tested, and helped lau...
Moon glows brighter than Sun in images from NASA's Fermi telescope
Aug 16, 2019 (SPX)
Gamma-ray observations are not sensitive enough to clearly see the shape of the Moon's disk or any surface features. Instead, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT)...
Chandrayaan-2 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
The health of the spacecraft is being continuously monitored from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) ...
Chandrayaan-2 mission to reach Lunar orbit on 20 August
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr Sivan told media: "On 14 August early morning, around 3:30, we are going to have a manoeuvre called a tran...
Kilopower technology could be used for lunar night operations
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Kilopower could be a promising technology for lunar night operations and extended surface missions," Wittry said. He explained that the Kilopower project was i...
India's moon-bound Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft set to leave Earth's orbit
Aug 14, 2019 (UPI)
Early Wednesday morning, after leaving Earth's orbit, engineers with the Indian Space Research Organization will direct the spacecraft to perform an important m...
China's lunar rover travels 271 meters on moon's far side
Aug 12, 2019 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Wednesday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar Explor...
ISRO Chandrayaan-2 completes 5th orbital manoeuvre
Aug 08, 2019 (IANS)
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 was raised to an orbit of 276x142,975km by firing the spacecraft's onboard mo...
First steps in getting Canada to the Moon
Aug 08, 2019 (SPX)
In order to prepare for these future missions, a team of Western University faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students is conducting an ...
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