This Is Where NASA Thinks It Will Find Water on the Moon
19 Jul 2024, 11:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Intuitive Machines and space agency NASA settled on where to land the PRIME-1 water hunting tool on the Moon
NASA Decides to Kill and Chop Up Its First-Ever, $450 Million Water-Hunting Moon Rover
18 Jul 2024, 07:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it is ending the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Moon rover after years of work and millions spent
China Gets Its Hands on Exactly 4.26 Pounds of Moon No One Has Ever Seen Before
3 Jul 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said the total weight of the samples brought back from the far side of the Moon is 4.26 pounds, or 1,935.30 grams
NASA Has a Huge Dust Problem Over on the Moon, Calls in HuLC to Handle It
2 Jul 2024, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the winners of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) that was meant to find a solution to lunar plume surface interaction
China Went to the Far Side of the Moon, Came Back With 4 Pounds of Rocks From There
25 Jun 2024, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chinese Chang'e-6 mission to the Moon concluded on June 25 after a capsule landed with some 4.4 pounds (two kg) of Moon samples from the far side
Real-Life Astronauts Test the Habitation Module of Humanity's First Distant Space Station
4 Jun 2024, 11:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) completed the first series of tests of its Gateway Lunar International Habitat (Lunar I-Hab)
China Sent Something to the Far Side of the Moon to Bring Back Samples for the First Time
3 May 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chinese Space Agency (CNSA) just launched the Chang'e mission, the first ever sample collection effort on the far side of the Moon
Is Toyota Going to the Moon? Japan-Made Pressurized Rover to Fly on Artemis Missions
15 Apr 2024, 08:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA and its Japanese counterpart JAXA signed an agreement to use a pressurized rover on the Moon during Artemis missions
Cars Meant for Other Planets (And The Companies That Make Them)
13 Apr 2024, 20:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a handful of companies are working on making cars (they call them crew-rated rovers) for use on the Moon and other planets, they are the pioneers
Fortnite Now Has an Official Moon Mission, No Battle Royale But Still Insanely Fun
12 Apr 2024, 12:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) partnered with Epic Games to create a dedicated mission to the Moon in Fortnite, they call it Lunar Horizons.
Millions Saw America’s Total Eclipse From Earth, But Here’s How It Looked Like From Space
9 Apr 2024, 13:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) captured the shadow of the Moon as it moved across North America on April 8, 2024
The Most Extreme Artemis Moon Rover Has Deformable Wheels and a Size to Impress
5 Apr 2024, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The third company competing for NASA's Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle contract is Venturi Astrolab. Its rover is called FLEX and is the biggest of all entries
NASA Cherry-Picks the Companies to Make the Artemis Moon SUV, Big Names Are on the List
4 Apr 2024, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced this week the names of the companies taking point in the development of new Lunar Terrain Vehicle
World's First-Ever Moon Rover With Headlights Also Packs an Extreme Set of Camera Eyes
2 Apr 2024, 18:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American agency NASA announced the mast carrying cameras, headlights, and antennas is now installed on the VIPER Moon rover.
Here's How NASA's Breathtaking Gateway Moon Space Station Will Become Operational
1 Apr 2024, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA shares the first rendering of the fully assembled Gateway Moon space station and details on how its assembly will proceed
NASA to Launch Rockets at the Moon's Shadow During Solar Eclipse
26 Mar 2024, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA will launch three sounding rockets into the atmosphere during the solar eclipse to see what the event does to the ionosphere
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First
21 Mar 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Research agency DARPA tasked aerospace company Northrop Grumman with looking into the merits, risks, and costs of a lunar railway network.
For 30 Minutes in February the Moon Had a Functional Position Beacon
19 Mar 2024, 15:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / During the Intuitive Machines mission one the Lunar Node-1 position beacon sent data to the Deep Space Network for a total of 30 minutes
These Are the Numbers Behind NASA's Space Launch System Block 1B Mega Rocket
17 Mar 2024, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says work on the second iteration of the Space Launch System rocket, the Block 1B, is already underway
These Are the First 6 American Instruments to Do Science on the Moon in 50 Years
6 Mar 2024, 12:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Now that the Intuitive Machines landers' mission on the Moon is over, NASA started working the numbers to see what it learned