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Moonstruck: Japan billionaire cancels hunt for lunar love

Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)

Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first priv...

AFRL And Blue Origin partner on test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine development

Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)

Capital improvements, funded by Blue Origin, will allow BE-7 testing in a simulated space-like environment. Planned work includes adding liquid hydrogen (LH2) a...

First commercial Moon delivery assignments to will advance Artemis

Jan 26, 2020 (SPX)

In May 2019, the agency awarded two orders for scientific payload delivery to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines, with both flights targeted to land on the Moon ...

ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondust

Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)

"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lom...

Mission X 2020 Walk to the Moon challenge is open!

Jan 15, 2020 (ESA)

The perfect project for school teachers of pupils between 8 and 12 years old, Mission X is also ideal for educators who run science clubs, youth and community g...

New moon rover tested in Lunar Operations Lab

Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)

About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon's South Pole looking for water ice in the region and for the first time ev...

China's lunar rover travels over 357 meters on moon's far side

Jan 06, 2020 (XNA)

Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 13th lunar day on Thursday (Beijing time), and switched to dormant mode for t...

India says it will try again to land on moon

Jan 02, 2020 (UPI)

The Chandrayaan-3 space mission, set to take place no later than early 2021, will include an upgraded space vehicle with a new propulsion module, moon lander an...

India targets new moon mission in 2020

Jan 01, 2020 (AFP)

Work is going "smoothly" on the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put a rover probe on the moon's surface, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K. Sivan told a pr...

Russia, US to discuss Lunar Gateway Station next spring

Dec 27, 2019 (Sputnik)

"[It will happen] closer to the spring, I think. We looked at all the pros and cons based on the interest in maintaining station and its non-stop work," Rogozin...

A box of Apollo lunar soil

Dec 24, 2019 (SPX)

Now, the future that Apollo-era scientists envisioned has come. Their successors, many of whom weren't even born when the last astronauts scooped up the Moon sa...

Macao's moon, planetary lab to boost China's deep space exploration

Dec 24, 2019 (SPX)

During the opening ceremony, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) Wu Yanhua also announced that the CNSA would set up Macao Space Ex...

Russian astronauts will face weight restrictions for Moon mission program

Dec 16, 2019 (Sputnik)

Overweight Russian astronauts won't be able to take part in the country's lunar mission aboard the Oryol space ship due to restrictions on the total weight of c...

China's lunar rover travels over 345 meters on moon's far side

Dec 05, 2019 (XNA)

Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 12th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night, the Lunar E...

India's Vikram lunar lander found in LRO images

Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)

The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilometers from the south pole; unfortunately the Indian Space Research Organ...

NASA finds Indian Moon lander with help of amateur space enthusiast

Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)

NASA made the announcement on Monday, releasing an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact (Septem...

Small satellites key to NASA's lunar search for water

Nov 26, 2019 (UPI)

Often, rockets carrying larger payloads into space aren't at maximum capacity. Until fairly recently, that extra capacity went wasted. But over the last two dec...

NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry

Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)

For NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative - which is leading the effort - this is no new concept. NASA has already awarded commercial contr...

Israel's next attempt at lunar lander within 3 years says SpaceIL founder

Nov 25, 2019 (Sputnik)

But, above all, he wants to make a difference and inspire Israeli kids to dream big. It took them 8 years and some $100 millions until Beresheet, Israel's first...

China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 12th lunar day

Nov 25, 2019 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 5:03 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 0:51 a.m. the same day. Both are in normal working orde...