25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
... outlined two more research opportunities: the chance to send payloads to the Moon's surface on Lockheed Martin's McCandless Lunar Lander; and the chance to take part in Milo's NEOshare mission to launch a cluster of six small satellites to study...
03 September 2021
Anomaly causes rocket to explode on maiden flight
... services, Firefly was awarded a $93.3 million contract under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme to deliver science payloads to the Moon on its Blue Ghost lunar lander. “Shoot,” Dodd says after the explosion. “Aw, man, shoot. That...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... development on the Moon, where we proved human single stage to orbit technology with the lift-off of the lunar lander in 1969, would completely transform the way that humans travel in the solar system. It would do this by utilising...
August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
... his commercial vision to explore the Moon when he unveiled the design of Blue Origin’s proposed ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander in Washington on 9 May 2019. Success and failure The opportunities and successes visible today were built on the...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... control into the habitat of the SIRIUS-19 four-month analogue mission that served as the crew’s spacecraft, lunar lander and home during their simulated journey to the Moon and back. Future SIRIUS missions will extend...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... of 2017. Aside from Planet, Rocket Lab also has a three-launch contract with Moon Express, a commercial lunar lander developer, and has won a Venture Class Launch Services contract from NASA last year. Thales Alenia...
