ESRIC Start-up Support Programme – Space Exploration and Lunar Prospecting
The Moon is viewed as a critical and strategic outpost for space exploration. With its proximity to Earth, it offers unique opportunities for developing In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) capabilities. To enhance the development of technological enablers that will trigger operational…
Redwire Awarded Contract by European Space Agency to Develop Robotic Arm Prototype for Argonaut Lunar Lander to Support International Lunar Exploration
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 22, 2024) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a robotic…
NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Japan will design, develop, and operate a pressurized rover for crewed…
Lunar Dawn Team Awarded NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle Contract
DENVER, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has awarded a Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) contract to the Lunar Dawn team, led by Lunar Outpost as the prime contractor along with its principal partner Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and teammates General…
China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite enters lunar orbit
HELSINKI — China’s Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite entered lunar orbit March 24, paving the way for a lunar far side sample return mission. Queqiao-2 began a 19-minute-long braking burn at 12:46 p.m. Eastern Sunday (1646 UTC), allowing the spacecraft to…
From Munich to the Moon
The European mission control centre near Munich, Germany, is set to undergo a transformation into a Moon mission control centre, tasked with supporting operations for missions to a lunar space station, the lunar surface and beyond. Today marks a significant…
Intuitive Machines makes first U.S. moon landing in 51 years
For the first time since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972, an American spacecraft reached the surface of the moon Thursday, a significant step toward NASA’s plan to eventually return astronauts to Earth’s closest celestial neighbor. After a…
Japan’s successful Moon landing was the most precise ever
Japan has become the fifth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, using precision technology that allowed it to touch down closer to its target landing site than any mission has before. However, the spacecraft might have survived on…
The Aqualunar Challenge, UK
The Aqualunar Challenge is a £1.2m international challenge prize focused on making human habitation in space possible by finding ways to purify water buried beneath the Moon’s surface. This is being delivered by Challenge Works on behalf of the UK…