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China's lander and rover power down for lunar night
Feb 13, 2019 (Sputnik)
China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft and its Yutu-2 lunar rover have entered sleep mode to wait out the cold lunar night, during which temperatures can plunge to as low...
Spaceflight to launch first privately funded lunar lander
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
The primary payload on the mission is a telecommunications satellite for the South East Asia region. It was built by SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, which al...
Russia pencils in first manned lunar mission for 2031
Feb 11, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The purpose of the mission is to carry the crew to the Moon", the mission plan for 2031 says, adding that the crew members will be practising certain operation...
NASA Administrator says Agency plans to 'go to the Moon and stay'
Feb 11, 2019 (Sputnik)
The NASA administrator wrote a post detailing his agency's goals, which aside from sending people to the Moon as well as Mars one day, involves keeping them the...
NASA-Industry Partnerships Can Support Lunar Exploration, Reports Say
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
"Review of the Planetary Science Aspects of NASA SMD's Lunar Science and Exploration Initiative" and "Review of the Commercial Aspects of NASA SMD's Lunar Scien...
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for lunar missions
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
Through multi-phased lunar exploration partnerships, NASA is asking American companies to study the best approach to landing astronauts on the Moon and start th...
Roscosmos, Academy of Sciences: Necessary to Prepare Lawyers for Moon Disputes
Feb 07, 2019 (Sputnik)
This recommendation has been made following the meeting between Roscosmos and the Academy of Sciences on the development of the National program for exploration...
First look: Chang'e lunar landing site
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
Because LRO was 330 kilometers (205 miles) to the east of the landing site, the Chang'e 4 lander is only about two pixels across (bright spot between the two ar...
First private spacecraft shoots for the moon
Feb 04, 2019 (The Conversation)
But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit c...
Chang'e-4 finds moon's far side colder than expected during night
Feb 01, 2019 (XNA)
This is the first time Chinese scientists have received first-hand data about the temperatures on the surface of the moon during the lunar night. The rover and ...
China's Chang'e-4 probe wakes up after first lunar night
Feb 01, 2019 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 8:39 p.m. Wednesday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at about 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, surviving their first lunar night after maki...
Russia positions its Moon program as alternative to US Lunar-orbit station
Jan 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
The decision on the format of participation in this project will be made after the development of the Russian national concept for Moon exploration, Roscosmos h...
Scientists explain formation of lunar dust clouds
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
The collision of a meteoroid with the surface of the Moon greatly changes the properties of the surrounding dusty plasma system by throwing a large quantity of ...
Moving on the Moon
Jan 25, 2019 (ESA)
The level of gravity on the Moon is about one sixth of Earth's so while Apollo astronauts did not float as astronauts do on the International Space Station, the...
At Sundance, a fresh look at man's first walk on the Moon
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
But never-before-seen NASA footage unearthed in the National Archives offered filmmaker Todd Miller a unique opportunity to revisit what he calls an "amazing te...
Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
An international team of scientists associated with the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE), part of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtua...
Preparing astronaut lunar exploration
Jan 25, 2019 (ESA)
In November, ESA conducted a moonwalk simulation in Lanzarote, Spain as part of Pangaea-X, a test campaign that brought together space exploration, high-tech su...
How realistic are China's plans to build a research station on the Moon?
Jan 24, 2019 (The Conversation)
Colonising the Moon, and beyond, has always being a human aspiration. Technological advancements, and the discovery of a considerable source of water close to t...
NASA's Campaign to Return to the Moon with Global Partners
Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)
Through an innovative combination of missions involving commercial and international partners, NASA's robotic lunar surface missions will begin as early as 2020...
Compete in a lunar economy
Jan 21, 2019 (ESA)
As ESA and other agencies prepare to send humans back to the Moon - this time to stay - technologies that make use of materials available in space (in-situ reso...
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