ESA ground stations to support first commercial Moon landing
Mission 1 is the first mission of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration programme from the company ispace, based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Luxembourg and the US. It will be launched into a low-energy transfer orbit by a SpaceX Falcon…
China outlines pathway for lunar and deep space exploration
HELSINKI — China has laid out its pathway for robotic and crewed lunar and deep space exploration, with a number of missions building towards a permanent moon base. Three upcoming robotic missions will set in place landers, orbiters, relay satellites…
Artemis: the Fucino Space Centre is ready to contribute to the return to the Moon
Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre and the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana or ASI) will support tracking of NASA’s Artemis I mission taking the Orion capsule around the Moon. At Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre, BTS-1 and BTS-2 antennas are ready to…
Canadensys Aerospace Awarded CSA Lunar Rover Contract
(Toronto, Ontario – Monday, November 14, 2022) Canadensys Aerospace is pleased to announce it has received a contract from the Government of Canada to design and build Canada’s first lunar rover. Initiated under the Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Exploration Accelerator…
KSAT’s lunar ground network presented during Space Week
KSAT is expanding its offering to include commercial lunar communication services through a dedicated network of 20m-class antennas. Only limited by lead time in the supply chain, in the next 2-3 years KSAT will develop the first independent antenna network…
Eta Space Completes Critical Milestone for LOXSAT Contract
ROCKLEDGE, FL, UNITED STATES , September 15, 2022 — Eta Space, a cryogenic fluid management (CFM) company, has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for LOXSAT, a Tipping Point contract awarded by NASA. A CDR ensures a system…
Helios And Eta Space Combine Technologies To Extract And Store Liquid Oxygen On The Moon
TEL AVIV and ROCKLEDGE – Two space tech companies, Helios and Eta Space, today announced they are joining forces to solve the problem of oxygen in space. If humanity is to have a sustainable presence beyond Earth, the reusable methane-fueled rocket systems need liquid oxygen…
Axiom Space wins NASA Task Order to Build Next Generation Spacesuits for Artemis III
(HOUSTON, 7 of September 2022) – Commercial space leader Axiom Space today announced it has been awarded the first task order of NASA’s Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) Contract. Under the terms of the task order, which has a base value of $228.5 million, the…
Three Companies To Help NASA Advance Solar Array Technology On The Moon
NASA has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency’s human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis. Through Artemis missions, NASA will return humans to the Moon and…