Collaborate Disseminate
In one of the strangest partnerships we’ve come across, Axiom Space and Prada (yes, that Prada) have teamed up to produce the space suits NASA astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon as part of the space agency’s Artemis program.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA’s Moon suit gets runway treatment in Prada partnership
If you’re on the Moon and your phone is about to die, there aren’t many places to plug in the charger. But Honeybee Robotics has outlined a plan to build a kind of power grid up there, with a network of Statue of Liberty-sized towers containing solar p… Continue reading LUNARSABER: Statue of Liberty-sized streetlights form Moon power grid
If you’re on the Moon and your phone is about to die, there aren’t many places to plug in the charger. But Honeybee Robotics has outlined a plan to build a kind of power grid up there, with a network of Statue of Liberty-sized towers containing solar p… Continue reading LUNARSABER: Statue of Liberty-sized streetlights form Moon power grid
When you live on the Moon, your only option for commuting back to Earth or onward to Mars will be some kind of rocket. But each launch will kick up a hellstorm of debris. Building walls to contain all that mess might one day fall to autonomous rovers.C… Continue reading Wall-building robot eyed for blast shield construction on the Moon
Future Moon bases may be a bit tidier thanks to an electric shield that protects equipment from destructive lunar dust. NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology promises to tame the destructive dust that clings to equipment.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading NASA’s electrodynamic dust shield will repel clingy, abrasive Moon grit
NASA has revealed the four vehicles that astronauts will drive on the Moon, awarding contracts totaling US$4.6 billion to Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab to develop the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) ahead of the Artemis V mission l… Continue reading NASA selects four next-generation lunar vehicles
Tackling one of the unsung but absolutely necessary tasks of Moon exploration, NASA and SpaceX are doing intensive testing of the docking mechanism that will be used to transfer astronauts from Artemis to the Starship Human Landing System (HLS).Continu… Continue reading NASA and SpaceX run Moon lander docking system through the wringer
When all else fails, blame it on the cloud? It seems like that’s the script for just about every outage that makes the news lately, like the Wyze camera outage …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 25, 2024
It’s 2024. NASA’s Artemis program is in full swing, and we’re hoping to get back to the surface of the Moon real soon. Astronauts haven’t walked on the beloved sky …read more Continue reading Could Moon Mining Spoil Its Untouched Grandeur And Science Value?
Within a few hours of this post going live, Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft is expected to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere — a disappointing end to a mission that was …read more Continue reading Crippled Peregrine Lander to Make Fiery Return Home