08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... to facilitate their plans for multiple Moon missions with the aid of the Peregrine lunar lander. Peregrine is Astrobitotic’s lunar lander that is designed to deliver payloads for governments, companies, universities, non-profits, and individuals...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... is not due to be delivered until the Artemis VI mission on a date still unconfirmed. A 1:10 model of a China manned lunar lander with attached lunar rover and (far right) VAST’s Haven-1 private space station. Sustainability It is good that space...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... NASA has developed and recently tested such a nuclear reactor called KRUSTY, that it is also considering testing on a lunar lander. However, as with the other nuclear power options, the question of their safety in an off-world environment remains...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...deliver goods without rocket deceleration has already been tried successfully. An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on the surface of the Moon after a soft landing. The California-based company is one of three selected by NASA...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... the SLS’s inaugural flight in 2021. Interestingly, the new bill also directs NASA to develop a human lunar lander “as an integrated lunar landing system carried on an Exploration Upper Stage-enhanced Space Launch System,” known as SLS Block 1B. This...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...carrying with it 4G communications equipment for NASA’s Artemis programme. Carried to their destination by Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, Lunar Outpost’s M1 Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover will also scoop up some regolith, take...
