25 September 2019
Spacebit announces agreement to land first UK commercial payload on Moon
... signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration starting in 2021. For the mission, Spacebit will utilise Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, which will be launched on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
...for the spacecraft that will transport the crew to the lunar surface has grown to $9.3 billion. Rising costs were ...lunar lander on Artemis III. “There were a lot of requirements changes,” said Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration...
28 February 2024
SSSIF consolidates position as Europe's leading NewSpace event
... conference, saying: “Smallsats will make the process of lunar exploration more efficient when it comes to communications and navigation, and prospecting for resources.” Lunar and cis-lunar missions and the associated economy have grown exponentially...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... including schematics of the joint International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) were also unveiled at GLEX 2021 with officials stating that the base will be developed concurrently but separate to the Artemis lunar exploration programme led by the US.
26 July 2021
Israel’s Helios to ride on ispace lunar lander to make oxygen on the Moon
...Helios has said it plans to join ispace, Japan’s lunar exploration firm, on its second and third missions to the ...while the metals will be used to establish the infrastructure for future lunar and martian bases, say the firm. “Our solution is unique ...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
.... gov/sites/default/files/files/GER-2013_Small.pdf 2: Harvey, B. (2007). Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration (pp. 69-108). Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, UK. 3: Faulkner, A. H, Gurzi, F., and Hughes, E. L. (1962). MAGIC – An Advanced Computer...
