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…
SpeQtral and Qosmosys Unite to Pioneer Lunar Quantum Communications
Singapore, 2 April 2024 – SpeQtral, an expert in space-based quantum communications, and Qosmosys, a leader in space exploration, proudly announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU). This collaboration aims to develop a Moon-based Entanglement Distribution System (MEDS)…
Qosmosys and the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) Sign a Letter of intent (LoI) to Advance Lunar Economy Initiatives
Luxembourg, March 25th, 2024 – Qosmosys, a pioneering company in the field of lunar economy, has signed Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) to collaborate on cutting-edge research and development projects in the burgeoning field of…
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…
Power vs. Mobility Dilemma: Dispelling the Illusion of Large-Scale Helium-3 Extraction from the Lunar Surface
Nearly four years since its inception, Qosmosys embarked on a mission to consult scientists across three continents to explore the potential for extracting Helium-3 from the Moon’s surface. Interestingly, the panel of responses appeared sharply divided into two camps: those…
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…