Moon Monday With Jatan Mehta
Happy Moon Monday! In this week’s edition, Jatan Mehta reports on: NASA envisions commercializing sending people to the Moon Goonhilly to provide communications for […]
Private Space
SpaceX Plans Moon Landing In 2022
Elon Musk‘s SpaceX is on a fast track to send its Starship spacecraft to the Moon within three years, according to a report by Space.com […]
NASA Signs Contracts For Lunar Payload Deliveries, Announces Moon Landing Sites
NASA has announced that it has signed contracts to deliver payloads to three different Lunar landing sites in 2020 and 2021. The contracts were awarded to: […]
NASA Orders First Lunar Gateway Segment. What’s Next?
Per Ars Technica‘s Eric Berger: NASA has chosen its first commercial partner for a proposed space station, known as the Lunar Gateway, to be built near […]
Russian Scientists Discover How Water (and Silver) Forms On The Moon
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) reports that researchers from the Higher School of Economics and the Space Research Institute of the […]
“The Happiest Place On The Moon”
You’ll probably not find Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and the other Disney characters that inhabit The Happiest Place On Earth there, but The Lunar […]
Lunar Property Sales To Russian Entities Banned By US Sanctions
Based upon sanctions announced today by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and in order to fully comply with the […]
Google Lunar X Prize Contest Ends Early; No Winner
The highly-publicized Google Lunar X Prize competition, with a goal of landing an unmanned rover on the Moon and sending back high-resolution images, has been […]
Japan’s Team Hakuto Delays Lunar Launch
The Japanese team competing in an international lunar probe contest said Wednesday (8 November) that it will postpone the launch date of its moon rover […]
Korea’s Moon Program: “Failure To Launch”?
Korea’s JoongAng Daily opines that the nation’s leaders may be playing pure politics with a proposed government-financed mission to the Moon, which includes a tight timeline […]