Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
Lunar lander Hakuto-R is feared to have crashed on the surface of its destination after communication with the Japanese spacecraft was lost just moments before its planned touchdown, at around 1640 GMT on 25 April. The lander had been in communication with the Mission...
After Flight VA260 was delayed by one day due to the weather, the Ariane 5 ECA+ rocket successfully launched the JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) spacecraft onto its interplanetary trajectory on 14 April from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana at 1214 GMT....
NASA has announced the names of the astronauts who will take part in the Artemis II “around the Moon” mission in 2024. They are: NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (Commander) and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The...
While landings on the Moon have been done before and are now regarded as a known technology, something not previously catered for is communications to the lunar far side. For example, the Apollo and Surveyor lunar landing programmes all touched down on the Earth...
