26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... by Paul Hayne at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, suggest that approximately 40,000 square kilometres (km2) of the lunar surface has the capacity to trap water and about 60 percent of it can be found in the south. “A majority of cold...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...for any astronauts that find themselves living in proposed lunar bases. There have already been many missions to ...its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite – but...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
...alternative mechanisms for getting samples back, such as a robotic sample return vehicle delivered to the moon on a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) lander, may need to be studied as a backup. Not everyone was thrilled this latest development...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
...of 16 teams still in the running for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (http://lunar.xprize.org/), and they will be using a commercial ...over decades of vehicle design and manufacturing.” The Audi lunar quattro boasts four-wheel drive and active suspension, ...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
...refined water ice expecting to generate billions of revenue annually – as much as $2.4 billion for 2,450 metric tons of processed lunar water, according to ULA – Cannon and Britt’s Ice Favourability index is likely to stir interest among budding moon...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
...changes in the landscape. That is unless a new long-lived Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN) could be deployed to the surface in ... being placed at four geographically diverse locations on the lunar surface and the feasibility of such a mission has ...
