Moon Monday
Hardware for Moonbound navigation arrives SpacePNT has delivered the ‘NaviMoon’ GNSS receiver for SSTL’s ESA-backed Lunar Pathfinder orbiter, which is targeting a 2026 launch. The payload is at the heart of an ESA-NASA collaboration to demonstrate a location fix at Luna using signals millions of times fainter than those
Artemis
NASA advances science planning for the historic return of humans to the Moon In a historic return since Apollo, NASA aims to land astronauts on our Moon again mid-decade with Artemis III. What science instruments will they bring along to deploy on the Moon’s south pole for advancing our
Indian Space
ISRO begins launching navigation satellites with GPS interoperability and self-made atomic clocks On May 29, an ISRO GSLV Mk II rocket successfully launched and deployed the NVS-01 navigation satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), providing a much needed boost to India’s regional navigation service called Navigation with Indian
Japan and Selene
ispace Japan’s first Moon lander crashed less than 7 kilometers from its target site Just a month after ispace Japan’s first lunar lander Hakuto-R failed to touchdown on the Moon on April 25, the company has identified from telemetry data the key causes of the M1 surface mission
Artemis
I only recently learnt that months were originally called moonths. I’m so going to say moonths now every chance I get. The word has been duly added to my device dictionaries. 🌝 NASA selects Blue Moon to compete with SpaceX Lunar Starship for crewed Artemis lunar landings NASA has selected
Moon Monday
Mission updates * ULA CEO Tory Bruno says the company’s Vulcan rocket will launch no earlier than June. This update comes as full-scale Vulcan testing resumes following an investigation prompted by the March 29 blowing up of a test Centaur V upper stage, which is a key element of the
Moon Monday
China to launch Queqiao 2 and Chang’e 6 lunar missions next year Queqiao 2 relay satellite China is on track to launch the Queqiao 2 lunar orbiter by May next year, Andrew Jones reports. Its 4.2-meter wide parabolic antenna will relay communications between Earth and CNSA’s upcoming
Indian Space Progress
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Japan and Selene
On ispace’s failed Moon landing attempt and related tangents for NASA’s CLPS craft On April 25, ispace Japan’s first lunar lander Hakuto-R aced through its remotely-initiated, hour-long autonomous descent on the Moon until the very last moments when it stopped communicating to Earth. ispace said that while
Articles
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Artemis
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Moon Monday
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