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In preparation for a permanent human colony on the Moon, DARPA has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to develop a lunar railway concept, as part of the 10-year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceT… Continue reading DARPA and Northrop Grumman’s railway on the Moon
The Washington Post reports:
Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law that allows private American space companies the rights to resources they mine on celestial bodies, including the moon.
Now, there’s a private venture that says it intends to d… Continue reading Can Interlune Mine Helium-3 on the Moon?
It completed the most precise landing ever on the moon — albeit upside-down. And then it faced a “lunar night” lasting about two weeks where temperatures drop to -270 degrees Fahrenheit, reports the Times of India.
But then, “Despite not being … Continue reading Japan’s Moon Lander Survived a 354-Hour Lunar Night. Now It Faces a Second One
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
As the Odysseus Moon lander faces its final hours of life, it turns out there’s one final twist in the saga: The spacecraft broke one of its legs on landing, thanks to a cascade of mistakes that began back on Earth, when a safety switch wasn’t flicked … Continue reading Odysseus broke leg on landing thanks to overlooked laser switch
Beating incredible odds, Japan’s SLIM lunar lander came back to life after surviving the intense dark and cold of the Moon’s night. On February 25, JAXA confirmed that it had temporarily reestablished communications with the robotic spacecraft.Continue… Continue reading Japan’s SLIM lunar lander comes back to life after killer Moon night
The IM-1 Moon landing mission will come to a premature end on Tuesday morning. Intuitive Machines has announced that the Odysseus lander will no longer be able to charge its batteries by February 27 as sunlight stops falling on its solar panels.Continu… Continue reading The Odysseus lunar mission ends following human error on Earth
Intuitive Machines says that its Odysseus Moon lander tripped and fell over on touchdown and is now lying on its side. One of the legs of the robotic spacecraft dug into the lunar surface during landing maneuvers, making it fall over on a rock.Continue… Continue reading Oops: Odysseus lunar lander fell over on touchdown
In 2019 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an Israeli spacecraft carrying a 30-million page archive of human civilization to the moon. Unfortunately, that spacecraft crashed.
But thanks to this week’s moon landing by the Odysseus, there’s now a 30-mill… Continue reading Moon Landing’s Payloads Include Archive of Human Knowledge, Lunar Data Center Test, NFTs
On Thursday, the Odysseus Moon lander made history by becoming the first ever privately built and operated robot to complete a soft lunar touchdown. While the lander is “alive and well,” the CEO of Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which built and flew… Continue reading Odysseus Moon Lander ‘Tipped Over On Touchdown’