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NASA continues to discuss co-op on Lunar orbital platform with other countries
Apr 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"NASA is still gathering information for Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway development," a NASA communications official told Sputnik on Monday. "This includes cont...
US plans own space suits for EVAs instead of Russia's at Lunar Gateway
Apr 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
"They offer to conduct spacewalks via the Russian airlock in US-made space suits," the source said. According to the source, foreign partners explained such req...
China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe
Apr 23, 2018 (XNA)
The name will be announced on China's Space Day on April 24, marking the day the country's first satellite was sent into space in 1970, according to the China N...
The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon Base
Apr 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
Expected to begin next year, a big push to reignite space exploration will see landmark awards for contractors to begin building humanity's first orbital moon b...
Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar mission
Apr 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The total cost of the mission is about INR 800 crore ($124 million), which includes INR 200 crore ($31 million) as the cost of launching and INR 600 crore ($93...
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?
Apr 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
The idea of the Moon's colonization was quite popular during the Cold War era. But in the mid-1970s such projects by the USSR and the US were suspended as trave...
Moon village already exists in contracts, Says ESA Chief
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"It is not a project of ESA, everybody is invited," Woerner said. "It is just an open concept and we are collecting institutions worldwide participating in that...
SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar Missions
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The partnership allows for a low-risk, phased approach to implementing a sustainable, long-term commercial service and will support lunar scientific and economi...
Walking on the Moon - underwater
Apr 18, 2018 (ESA)
The three-year study took place in the Centre's 10-m deep Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) near Cologne in Germany. This is one of four such immersion tanks worl...
NASA offers 4K tour of the moon
Apr 12, 2018 (UPI)
Engineers with NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio used the same camera path but incorporated a wealth of new data collected by the LRO over the last several...
NAU planetary scientist's study suggests widespread presence of water on the Moon
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across the surface of the moon, not co...
Second blue moon of the year is last until 2020
Mar 30, 2018 (UPI)
For the second time this year, a blue moon will appear. The first was in January. Linda Lam, a Weather.com meteorologist, said people living in the South, South...
Roscosmos, NASA to set common standards for first lunar orbit station
Mar 29, 2018 (Sputnik)
"A bilateral working meeting will kick off in Houston on April 9, where Russia will present a report on the work it has done on the lunar station to coordinate ...
Indian space agency postpones second Moon mission to October
Mar 27, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Initially, we had planned an April launch for Chandrayaan-2, but in the review, a meeting held a few days ago with experts from the across the country, it was ...
India to Experiment With Igloo-like Structures on the Moon - Minister
Mar 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
n what could be India's biggest achievement in space exploration, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is experimenting with potential structures for l...
New AI mapping algorithm discovers 6,000 new craters on the Moon
Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers first trained the neural network on 90,000 images that covered two-thirds of the moon's surface before testing its ability to detect craters on the ...
'Luna City 2175' will take audience to a future community grappling with how to be civilized
Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)
"Luna City: 2175," the title of the seventh annual ASU Emerge, will be a combined art, theater and museum experience that's based on real research about what an...
Scientists Share Ideas for Gateway Activities Near the Moon
Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)
Although it is too early to select specific research for the gateway, the workshop marks the first time in more than a decade the agency's human spaceflight pro...
The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestia
Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)
"The new work explains features of the Moon that are hard to resolve with current ideas," said Sarah Stewart, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Da...
Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration site
Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)
The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralogy of the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, a gash in the lunar surface with a diameter ...
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