08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... one kilometre in diameter on the inside of a large lunar crater. This would require only a few robots from Earth... go onto create a network of LCRTs that would facilitate in lunar Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astronomy. VLBI is already a...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... year NASA awarded a grant for the development of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a wire-mesh receiver one... the astronomical community revisit this shelved plan for a lunar liquid-mirror telescope. This would complete astronomy’s centuries ...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... Chang'e-5 probes.” Expected to be a kerosene-liquid oxygen fuelled rocket, the former deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme said that the technologies behind the project are already at a mature stage of development and...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
...it can easily accessed is paramount to the establishment of a lunar settlement. Up until the last decade or so, many scientists... both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... radiometer instrument, known as Diviner, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Diviner showed the team that...at the University of Toronto, to compile the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years. The result was very...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
...help from a NASA-funded space mission known as GLEE (Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone). The project is part of an initiative financed...might one day help to pave the way for future lunar visits from human astronauts, students from CU Boulder are ...
