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Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as 'modern global insurance policy'

Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)

Thanga and a group of his undergraduate and graduate students outline the lunar ark concept, which they call a "modern global insurance policy," in a paper pres...

Moving into Cislunar Space

Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)

In particular, national security space operations that are in cislunar space could lead to interference with military proximity operations. Judging from several...

China's Chang'e 4 lander and rover resume work for 28th lunar day

Mar 09, 2021 (XNA)

Landing on the moon on Jan. 3, 2019, the Chang'e 4 probe has survived 795 Earth days on the moon, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China Na...

Planetary pact: China and Russia to launch lunar space station

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

Though Moscow was once at the forefront of space travel -- it sent the first man into space -- its cosmic ambitions have dimmed thanks to poor financing and end...

Lockheed Martin And NEC Put AI To Work On Programs Like NASA's Artemis Mission

Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)

"The power of AI is leveraged across our entire enterprise, and with a trusted partner like NEC, we gain the resources to expand its abilities at scale across o...

NASA, Navy test diving technology that could be used on the moon

Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)

Divers from the Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving joined the NASA team at the Sonny Carter Training Facility in Houston between Feb. ...

Canada to join US mission to moon

Feb 26, 2021 (XNA)

"It's official!" Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne tweeted. "Canada will join the US on the first crewed mission...

Apollo rock samples capture key moments in the Moon's early history, study find

Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)

The analysis, published in the journal Science Advances, used a technique called secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to study volcanic glasses returned from ...

TTTech Aerospace and RUAG Space selected by Maxar to supply TTEthernet network platform for NASA's Gateway

Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)

"Maxar completed the Systems Requirements Review for PPE, and we are now beginning to contract our sub-suppliers. We chose TTTech Aerospace because they can pro...

TTTech Aerospace and RUAG Space selected by Maxar to supply TTEthernet network platform for NASA's Gateway

Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)

"Maxar completed the Systems Requirements Review for PPE, and we are now beginning to contract our sub-suppliers. We chose TTTech Aerospace because they can pro...

ESA plans mission to explore lunar caves

Feb 25, 2021 (ESA)

Through these five Sysnova studies, three mission scenarios were developed - one to perform a preliminary scout of entry pits and underground caves from the Moo...

China's lunar rover travels 652 meters on far side

Feb 23, 2021 (XNA)

The lander was switched to dormant mode at 1:30 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time) as scheduled, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 1:48 a.m. Friday, said the ce...

How to Get Water on the Moon

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

Lunar water has been found locked in ice form in the cold, permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles, and drifting in gas form in the very thin lunar atm...

Goddard's Core Flight Software Chosen for NASA's Lunar Gateway

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

As part of the Artemis program, NASA will send astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence by the end of the decade. The Gateway will provid...

Teaching an Old Spacecraft New Tricks to Continue Exploring the Moon

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

In the Spring of 2018, LRO's Miniature Inertial Measurement Unit (MIMU), a critical sensor used to help point the spacecraft's instruments, was powered off to p...

NASA awards contract to launch initial elements for lunar outpost

Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)

After integration on Earth, the PPE and HALO are targeted to launch together no earlier than May 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's...

Ozmens' SNC delivers prototype lunar crew module to DYNETICS

Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)

If the Dynetics-led team is selected to continue development of their human landing system for NASA's Artemis program, the SNC crew module could transport the f...

Chang'e 4 lander, rover resume work on moon

Feb 09, 2021 (XNA)

The Yutu 2 rover activated at 4:26 am on Saturday and the lander activated just over 12 hours later, the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration...

Orbit Logic Tackles Autonomous Lunar Exploration with Robotic Swarms

Feb 09, 2021 (SPX)

Orbit Logic's existing Autonomous Planning System (APS) is the foundation of the IN-PASS architecture. An instance of APS will operate onboard each swarm asset ...

Armstrong Assists with Orion for First Astronaut Mission

Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)

NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is providing system engineering and integration expertise to assist with an Orion heat shield sp...