01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group (LEAG) this week, eagle-eyed attendees spotted a small footnote on one particular slide...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... communications relay satellite stationed on the far side of the Moon is now the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE); a prototype radio telescope with a mission to detect electromagnetic signals from just after the Big Bang...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... ESA’s Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division. “We are working with our colleagues in the Human and Robotics Exploration Directorate, European industry and academia to provide top class scientific approaches and key enabling technologies like...
24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
... human and half horse. A few years ago, with the help of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers set out to determine the true nature of these mysterious objects and when the results...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... to announce tomorrow (Thursday) who will deliver it's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon, a new study could give the mission a head start...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... in the thermosphere on sub-seasonal timescales. Hope is also carrying a high-resolution multiband camera called the Emirates eXploration Imager (EXI). Designed to measure the planet's water ice and ozone abundances, it will focus on Mars’ lower...
