10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
...to land the first astronauts near the lunar South Pole. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for ...human landing system, next-generation spacesuits, Gateway lunar space station, and future rovers are NASA...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... a visual navigation and hazard avoidance system to safely land on the lunar surface. The Luna-27 lander will fly to a challenging landing site closer to the lunar south pole using a European system called Pilot as its main navigation system. Its...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... send astronauts back to the Moon by the middle of this decade. The astronauts will land at the lunar south pole, a challenging location because of its extreme temperatures, craters, sharp regolith, shadowed areas and changing illumination conditions...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... the solar system. It truly enables the science of the LunaH-Map mission, mapping water-ice at the lunar south pole with a miniature neutron spectrometer,” said Prof. Craig Hardgrove, Arizona State University’s Principal Investigator for LunaH...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
..., who is widely regarded as the father of India's space programme—will try to land near the little-explored lunar south pole between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, and carry out scientific activities for approximately 15 days. Meanwhile...
