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SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon's southern hemisphere. Previous o...
China's lunar rover travels 565.9 meters on moon's far side
Oct 27, 2020 (XNA)
The lander was switched to dormant mode at 9:40 pm Friday (Beijing Time) as scheduled, and the rover, Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 12 noon Friday, said the center...
NASA, Human Lunar Lander Companies Complete Key Artemis Milestone
Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)
Since then, NASA has worked closely with the Blue Origin-led team, Dynetics, and SpaceX to better understand their human landing system proposals and approach f...
Eagles to land first student project on Moon to snap selfie of Lunar landing
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Ahead of the United States' crewed return to the moon in 2024, the Nova-C Lunar Lander will launch a science and technology payload to a valley in the Ocean of ...
NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the Moon
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The delivery of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment known as PRIME-1 will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and, for the first time, harve...
Intuitive Machines wins order to search for ice at Lunar south pole
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. "Laying the...
HeroX helps NASA advance Lunar exploration with a miniaturized payload prototype challenge
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
The challenge seeks to develop miniature payload prototypes that can be sent to the Moon to help fill gaps in lunar knowledge. Lunar resources are potentially a...
Magnetic fields on the moon are the remnant of an ancient core dynamo
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
One theory is that they are in some way remnants of an ancient core magnetic field. Possibly similar to what can still be observed on Earth today. Here, the cor...
Faces Behind NASA's Artemis Gateway - Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Meet Sharada Vitalpur, Communication and Tracking Systems Manager for Gateway From satellites to Gateway, Sharada Vitalpur has come a long way to fulfill her dr...
NASA funds Nokia plan to provide cellular service on moon
Oct 15, 2020 (UPI)
That project was part of $370 million in new contracts for lunar surface research missions NASA announced Wednesday. Most of the money went to large space compa...
Airbus selected for ESA's Moon lander study
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Europe is already contributing to the Global Exploration Roadmap agreed by 14 space agencies around the world, in which Airbus is also playing its part. Europea...
UK and NASA sign international agreement ahead of mission to the Moon
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
The UK will play a key role in this mission. Businesses across the UK will be involved in building the service module and habitation module of the Lunar Gateway...
US remains hopeful Russia will join Artemis Space Coalition to Moon, NASA Admin says
Oct 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
Seven states participating in US lunar exploration efforts have joined the United States in signing the "Artemis Accords", Bridenstine said in a virtual event s...
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under 'Artemis Accords'
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
The treaty paves the way for its founding members -- Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States -- to part...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 23rd lunar day
Oct 13, 2020 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 6:57 p.m. Saturday, said sources with the Lunar Explor...
Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
The proposed new station, called the Gateway, "is too US-centric, so to speak," Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said, adding Rus...
Moon's magnetic crust research sees scientists debunk long-held theory
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Australian researcher and study co-author Dr Katarina Miljkovic, from the Curtin Space Science and Technology Centre, located within the School of Earth and Pla...
First U.S. robotic moon lander since Apollo era planned for mid-2021
Oct 07, 2020 (UPI)
The lander project, which received funding from NASA, would become the first private, commercial mission to the moon, said Sharad Bhaskaran, mission director fo...
NASA Asks: What Would You Pack for the Moon?
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
To take the challenge to the next level, the agency also has an Expert Mode: follow the strict guidelines astronauts must adhere to when packing their "personal...
A roadmap for science on the moon
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the Moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the ...
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