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
American Cameras Capture the First Images of the Moon's Surface in Half a Century
29 Feb 2024, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and Intuitive Machines share the first images and info on the status of the Odysseus Moon lander and the science instruments it carries
America Now Has an Intuitive Machine on the Moon After First Landing There in 50+ Years
23 Feb 2024, 07:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and private company Intuitive Machines managed the first Moon landing of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program
2024 Great North American Eclipse to Help NASA Prove the Roundness of the Sun
21 Feb 2024, 10:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is enlisting the help of civilians to track Baily's beads on the Moon during April's total solar eclipse and learn more about the Sun
13 Places on the Moon for American Astronauts to Land
20 Feb 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Artemis III and subsequent Moon missions have lots of potential landing sites, NASA will have to pick the best ones possible
Falling Camera to Snap First-Ever Third-Person Pic of Spacecraft Landing on an Alien World
13 Feb 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A private camera experiment will attempt to capture from a third-person view the Intuitive Machines Odysseus as it lands on the lunar surface
NASA Plans to Run the Moon and Mars on Nuclear Power
1 Feb 2024, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Phase 1 of the Fission Surface Power Project, nuclear reactor for the Moon and Mars coming soon
America's First Moon Mission in 50 Years Exploded and No One Was There to See It
19 Jan 2024, 11:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NASA-Astrobotic Moon mission ended this week with the Peregrine landing burning up in the sky over the South Pacific Ocean