05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... the university and NASA, Astrobotic are working on a CubeRover design capable of characterising surface mobility and evaluating lunar lander ejecta but on a petite scale. Like its satellite namesake – CubeSat – which has transformed the economics...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...-term storage technology”, Bultitude says. Tanker-002 is sharing a lift to space with Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander, courtesy of GeoJump, which is offering rideshare missions to GEO in partnership with Spaceflight. Following separation from...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
...-off company of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, to carry a payload provided by AEM to the Moon on the Peregrine Lander, a lunar lander the company is developing. The agency issued a request for proposals for the development of the payload...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...came to be known as Artemis 1, followed later by a crewed mission to lunar orbit, and culminating in a human landing on the Moon’s surface in 2024...than $3 billion in fiscal year 2021 to have lunar landers built quickly enough to achieve the goal, even...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... Congress funded it to the tune of $850 million in a very bipartisan bill.” Without the full budget for the lunar lander, “NASA is going to have to do an assessment and make a determination as to whether or not 2024 is going to be achievable or not...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... of that oxygen is now being reclaimed from the captured CO2. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit. This will be the first outpost beyond low Earth orbit and is intended to serve as a stepping stone...
