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NASA Marshall to lead Artemis Program's human lunar lander development
Aug 19, 2019 (SPX)
"Marshall Space Flight Center is the birthplace of America's space program. It was Marshall scientists and engineers who designed, built, tested, and helped lau...
Moon glows brighter than Sun in images from NASA's Fermi telescope
Aug 16, 2019 (SPX)
Gamma-ray observations are not sensitive enough to clearly see the shape of the Moon's disk or any surface features. Instead, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT)...
Chandrayaan-2 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
The health of the spacecraft is being continuously monitored from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) ...
India's moon-bound Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft set to leave Earth's orbit
Aug 14, 2019 (UPI)
Early Wednesday morning, after leaving Earth's orbit, engineers with the Indian Space Research Organization will direct the spacecraft to perform an important m...
Chandrayaan-2 mission to reach Lunar orbit on 20 August
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr Sivan told media: "On 14 August early morning, around 3:30, we are going to have a manoeuvre called a tran...
Kilopower technology could be used for lunar night operations
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Kilopower could be a promising technology for lunar night operations and extended surface missions," Wittry said. He explained that the Kilopower project was i...
China's lunar rover travels 271 meters on moon's far side
Aug 12, 2019 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Wednesday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar Explor...
ISRO Chandrayaan-2 completes 5th orbital manoeuvre
Aug 08, 2019 (IANS)
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 was raised to an orbit of 276x142,975km by firing the spacecraft's onboard mo...
First steps in getting Canada to the Moon
Aug 08, 2019 (SPX)
In order to prepare for these future missions, a team of Western University faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students is conducting an ...
Moon 2069: lunar tourism and deep space launches a century on from Apollo?
Aug 05, 2019 (The Conversation)
It was thanks to the rocks collected by the Apollo astronauts that scientists could work out the age of the moon, its evolutionary history and how the Earth and...
China's micro lunar orbiter crashes into Moon under control
Aug 05, 2019 (XNA)
The micro satellite crashed into a predetermined area on the far side of the Moon at 10:20 p.m. on July 31 (Beijing Time), the center said Friday. Weighing 47 k...
Cislunar blueprint to propel space outreach for the next 50 years
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
"The ecosystem of human space exploration has been rapidly expanding," said Mung Chiang, Purdue's John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering and the R...
The Moon and Mercury may have thick ice deposits
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
On the Moon, "We found shallow craters tend to be located in areas where surface ice was previously detected near the south pole of the Moon, and inferred this ...
Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for 4th time
Aug 05, 2019 (IANS)
On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an elliptical orbit of 170x45,475 km by India's heavy-lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark I...
Australia can pick up its game and land a Moon mission
Aug 02, 2019 (SPX)
Australia has long played a role in space exploration beyond helping to bring those historic images of the first moonwalk to our television screens back in 1969...
Study shows that the Moon is older than previously believed
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximat...
NASA announces US industry partnerships to advance Moon, Mars technology
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
NASA centers will partner with the companies, which range from small businesses with fewer than a dozen employees to large aerospace organizations, to provide e...
NASA announces call for next phase of Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
The newest announcement calls for companies to push the boundaries of current technology to support the next generation of lunar landers that can land heavier p...
Chinese lunar lander awaken for 8th day
Jul 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The Chang'e-4 lander successfully awoke from dormant mode on Friday, 7:12 p.m. Beijing time [11:12 a.m. GMT] and began the eighth month of work on the Moon. Th...
India's lunar probe Chandrayaan-2 completes first orbit manoeuver
Jul 26, 2019 (Sputnik)
India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its ambitious deep space mission on Monday (22nd July) from its spaceport at Sriharikota on the eastern shor...
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