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Cislunar blueprint to propel space outreach for the next 50 years
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
"The ecosystem of human space exploration has been rapidly expanding," said Mung Chiang, Purdue's John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering and the R...
The Moon and Mercury may have thick ice deposits
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
On the Moon, "We found shallow craters tend to be located in areas where surface ice was previously detected near the south pole of the Moon, and inferred this ...
China's micro lunar orbiter crashes into Moon under control
Aug 05, 2019 (XNA)
The micro satellite crashed into a predetermined area on the far side of the Moon at 10:20 p.m. on July 31 (Beijing Time), the center said Friday. Weighing 47 k...
Moon 2069: lunar tourism and deep space launches a century on from Apollo?
Aug 05, 2019 (The Conversation)
It was thanks to the rocks collected by the Apollo astronauts that scientists could work out the age of the moon, its evolutionary history and how the Earth and...
Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for 4th time
Aug 05, 2019 (IANS)
On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an elliptical orbit of 170x45,475 km by India's heavy-lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark I...
Australia can pick up its game and land a Moon mission
Aug 02, 2019 (SPX)
Australia has long played a role in space exploration beyond helping to bring those historic images of the first moonwalk to our television screens back in 1969...
NASA announces US industry partnerships to advance Moon, Mars technology
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
NASA centers will partner with the companies, which range from small businesses with fewer than a dozen employees to large aerospace organizations, to provide e...
Study shows that the Moon is older than previously believed
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximat...
NASA announces call for next phase of Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
The newest announcement calls for companies to push the boundaries of current technology to support the next generation of lunar landers that can land heavier p...
Chinese lunar lander awaken for 8th day
Jul 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The Chang'e-4 lander successfully awoke from dormant mode on Friday, 7:12 p.m. Beijing time [11:12 a.m. GMT] and began the eighth month of work on the Moon. Th...
The Apollo experiment that keeps on giving
Jul 26, 2019 (JPL)
The longevity of the experiment can be attributed at least in part to its simplicity: The arrays themselves require no power. Four telescopes at observatories i...
How to build a moon base
Jul 26, 2019 (The Conversation)
The conditions at the lunar surface are extreme. The moon has a 28-day rotation period, resulting in two weeks of continuous sunlight followed by two weeks of d...
Chandrayaan-2 will reach the moon by August 20, says ISRO
Jul 26, 2019 (IANS)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the first-earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 was successfully performed on Wednesday a...
India's lunar probe Chandrayaan-2 completes first orbit manoeuver
Jul 26, 2019 (Sputnik)
India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its ambitious deep space mission on Monday (22nd July) from its spaceport at Sriharikota on the eastern shor...
The death of Neil Armstrong and a $6 million secret
Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)
The New York Times said Tuesday it had received by mail 93 pages of documents revealing a dispute between the family of the most famous astronaut in history and...
Toyota Unveils Its Cosmic Collaboration for Futuristic Moon Rover
Jul 24, 2019 (Sputnik)
Toyota has announced the cosmic-scale launch of its off-road moon rover of the future for astronauts. The joint effort by Japan's world-renowned car company and...
Polar Moon water not as invincible as expected, scientists argue
Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)
The most enticing feature of this southernmost region is the craters, some of which never see the light of day reach their floors. The reason for this is the lo...
After Chandrayaan-m Mission India needs to improve satellite launcher capacity
Jul 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
Chandrayaan-2 was successfully launched on Monday, on the GLSV Mark III, nicknamed "Bahubali" or the most powerful, with a carrying capacity of 4-tonnes of sate...
NASA seeks input from US industry on Artemis Lander development
Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)
The agency's internal studies point toward a three-stage human landing system, but NASA is also interested in alternative approaches that can accomplish the sam...
China invites nations to join in moon exploration
Jul 23, 2019 (XNA)
As the world celebrates the historic US moon landing on July 20, 1969, Chinese lunar explorers said their moon exploration program, including plans for a roboti...
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