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NASA's CAPSTONE lunar orbiter leaves Earth orbit

Jul 05, 2021 (UPI)

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment is attached to Rocket Lab's Photon upper stage, which maneuvered CAPS...

NASA offers $45M to solve risks for astronaut Lunar landing services

Jul 02, 2021 (SPX)

NASA is seeking new work to mature designs and conduct technology and engineering risk-reduction tasks for the human landing system (HLS), which will ferry Arte...

Rocketlab launches CAPSTONE on lunar mission for NASA

Jun 27, 2021 (UPI)

Designed and built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corporation, and owned and operated by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA, the Cislunar Auton...

Technical snags make US Astronauts' lunar landing in 2024 'less likely', GAO Says

Jun 25, 2021 (Sputnik)

"A fast-tracked schedule to meet this ambitious date - along with some technical risks - mean that it's less likely a lunar landing will happen in 2024," a GAO ...

NASA, Nelson push for annual moon landings for 'a dozen years'

Jun 23, 2021 (UPI)

Nelson, who became administrator May 3, said Congress hasn't appropriated enough money for the nation's coming lunar aspirations. "We want to have these sustain...

SwRI awarded Lunar lander investigation contract

Jun 22, 2021 (SPX)

"With LITMS, we hope to get a better understanding of the thermal evolution, differentiation and asymmetry of the Moon," said SwRI's Dr. Robert Grimm, LITMS pri...

Apollo 14 remembered as 'back to space' mission that expanded lunar science

Jun 20, 2021 (UPI)

The three astronauts from Apollo 14 -- Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell -- have died, but their families and several other Apollo-era figures recal...

Brazil becomes first South American partner to NASA's Artemis Accords

Jun 16, 2021 (UPI)

Marcos Pontes, Brazil's minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, signed the Artemis Accords Tuesday in the capital of Brasilia during a ceremony attended...

NASA Chief Predicts US Race with China to Put Next Human on Moon

Jun 16, 2021 (Sputnik)

Nelson said China's successful May 14 landing of a rover on Mars, the second nation apart from the US to achieve the feat, had energized the Chinese space progr...

Brazil Signs Artemis Accords

Jun 16, 2021 (SPX)

Brazil Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation Marcos Pontes signed the document during a ceremony June 15 in Brasilia that featured President Jair Bols...

Lunar samples record impact 4.2 billion years ago

Jun 15, 2021 (SPX)

The formation and ages of the lunar basins and craters, created during large collisional impact events during the first ~500 million years of the Solar System h...

Have your name forever on the Moon with Spacebit's Wevolver Engineering Challenge

Jun 14, 2021 (SPX)

The challenge was catalyzed by the recent partnership agreement signed between UK-based Spacebit and the engineering community platform, Wevolver. Over the next...

Lunar sample tells ancient story with help of Curtin's world-class facilities

Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)

The global research collaboration, involving scientists from the UK, Canada, Sweden and Australia, aimed to analyse the ancient rock sample through a modern len...

KSAT to support Intuitive Machines' missions to the Moon

Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)

"Our first mission has a very unique orbit for the first 24 hours," said Troy LeBlanc Ph.D., Intuitive Machines' vice president of control centers. "We're going...

Queqiao: The bridge between Earth and the far side of the moon

Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)

Still, in January 2019, China's lunar probe Chang'e-4 marked the first time a spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. Both the lander and the lunar rover...

NASA selects new science investigations for future lunar deliveries

Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)

The payloads mark the agency's first selections from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals. "These sele...

Dust: An Out-of-This World Problem

Jun 09, 2021 (SPX)

Beyond Earth's atmosphere, dust is insidious. On the Moon, it's made of crushed rock and is damaging to everything from lunar landers to spacesuits and human lu...

Moon habitat blueprint at Venice Biennale

Jun 04, 2021 (ESA)

The resulting design is on show at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. While the theme of the overall exhibition is 'How w...

New Zealand signs Artemis Accords

Jun 02, 2021 (SPX)

"New Zealand, along with seven other nations, helped craft the principles espoused in the Artemis Accords. These simple, universal principles will enable the ne...

How were the carbon contents in terrestrial and lunar mantles established

Jun 02, 2021 (SPX)

During the formation of the planetary embryos, the interior of these bodies was likely to be molten due to the heat by radiative-decay elements and a collisiona...