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Simulation of the landing of the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the moon. Image: ISRO

India's Chandrayaan-3 Landing at the South Pole of the Moon - Space Policy Expert Explains the Context

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The fact that so many nations - the United States, Russia, China, India, Israel - and even commercial entities are interested in landing on the moon means that there are many opportunities to create new partnerships
Chandrayaan 3 mission logo. Courtesy of Indian Space Research Organization - ISRO

הכללית הודית צ'נאדריאאן 3 נחתה בשלום על היראח. שידור חי

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The spacecraft made history as the first to land on the south pole of the moon. India became only the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon
The auxiliary objective is essential for NASA's Artemis 2 mission. Credit: ULA

The moon is in the crosshairs: technicians add a "target" to the Artemis 2 missile

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The four astronauts aboard Orion will use a target attached to the space propulsion stage to demonstrate approach operations to test Orion's navigation capabilities. The target underwent illumination tests in May to ensure that it could be seen in different lighting conditions in space
A model of a vehicle driving on a rock in an experiment of the CADRE project. The technology demonstration, destined for the Moon, will show the potential for cooperative autonomous exploration using a team of three small solar vehicles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's "two-mode" autonomous mini-vehicles to join Artemis program lunar crews

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Artist's illustration of the LuSEE-Night radio telescope on the Moon. (credit: NASA/Tricia Talbert)

Building telescopes on the moon could change the face of astronomy - and it is becoming an achievable goal

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The moon still has much to tell us about the origin and development of the solar system. It also has scientific value as a platform for observational astronomy
Amit Kshatriya is Deputy Associate Director of the Lunar to Mars Program Office at NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. Credit: NASA

NASA launched the "Moon to Mars" program office

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The Space Operations Mission Directorate remains responsible for all space operations in low Earth orbit and focuses on the space station, space communications, and navigation that support all of NASA's human exploration and science missions.
The crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hemock Cook, Reed Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover and Canadian space agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA

NASA has announced the four astronauts who will orbit the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, for the first time since Apollo

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Among the four are Victor Glover who spent six months on the International Space Station, but at NASA for some reason they emphasize the color of his light, as well as Christina Hemock Cook - the first woman to fly to the lunar orbit
Artist's impression of the Moon Gate, a habitat, refueling and research center for astronauts exploring the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Credit: NASA/Alberto Bertolin

what time is it on the moon Researchers suggest applying the time zone method to the moon as well

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what time is it on the moon Researchers suggest accommodating the time zone system on the moon as well
Jim Frey, NASA's associate director for exploration systems development (manned flights), at the 18th Ilan Ramon conference in Tel Aviv. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The Artemis program is progressing while dealing with budget constraints and inflation

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NASA's associate director for exploration systems development (manned flights), Jim Frey, provided updates on the progress of the Artemis program in an interview with the science website
A NASA poster for the launch of the Artemis 1 spacecraft on the SLS rocket. Image: NASA

NASA's Artemis 1 mission will be launched on Monday at 15:33 - what to expect and why it is important

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The mission, whose launch is scheduled for Monday, August 29, 2022, is a test flight - without a crew - of the launch system into space and the Orion crew compartment. NASA hopes it will pave the way for routine exploration of space beyond Earth's orbit
Rendering of 13 candidate landing zones for Artemis III. Each area is about 15 by 15 kilometers. A landing site is a location within those areas with a radius of about 100 meters. Credit: NASA

NASA identifies sites on the moon for the next US manned landing

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NASA will discuss the formation of the final sites with the scientific community and with SpaceX whose landing vehicle, Starship is manufactured according to its capabilities
Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit, exploring the ice on the moon. Credit: Morehead State University

The tiny satellite revolution is coming to the moon

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NASA's Lunar IceCube -- Cubesat for observing the moon ready for Artemis 1 launch
This artist impression shows an aerial view of the liftoff of a NASA Space Launch System rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket will send the first three Artemis missions to the moon. Credit: NASA/MSFC

Final preparations for the launch of the Artemis 1 SLS lunar launcher for launch at the end of the month

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NASA's target launch date is now August 29th at 08:33 EST in a two-hour time window. If there is a successful launch on August 29th the mission will last about 42 days - until October 10th
A rendering of the new spacesuit that NASA is designing for the Artemis astronauts. The suit is called the xEMU, or Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit. Credit: NASA

There is enough oxygen on the moon's surface to support billions of people living there

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Current estimates indicate that the upper ten meters of the Moon's surface contain enough elemental oxygen to create enough O2 for every person on Earth for the next hundred thousand years - more than enough to settle on the Moon!
lunar base Illustration: depositphotos.com

NASA has issued a call for the establishment of a nuclear power plant on the moon

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Battelle Energy Alliance and NASA are seeking industry partners to design a nuclear power system for lunar applications
A model of living on the moon - EBIOS. PR photo, Dassault Systèmes

Interstellar Lab unveils "BioPod" - a living simulator on the Moon and Mars

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The system created with Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform simulates a self-sustaining food production system, furthering Interstellar Lab's mission to produce and recycle food, water, and air to support sustainable life on Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Helios' vision for the future of humanity: a base on the moon, with a local oxygen reservoir. PR photo, Helios

An Israeli company will pave the way for human settlement on the moon and Mars

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An Israeli company intends to extract oxygen from the soil of the moon - and fuel SpaceX to Mars The Helios solution, supported by the Israeli Space Agency, may reduce the cost of launches and enable a long-term human presence in deep space
The Artemis 1 spacecraft - the first Orion spacecraft in NASA's new lunar program. Photo: Lockheed Martin

The Artemis 1 spacecraft that will attack the moon has been handed over to NASA

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Until now, the spacecraft has been in the Neil Armstrong assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Now Lockheed Martin, which built it, has handed it over to the ground crew for refueling and preparation for launch later this year
Lunar Cruiser, credit TOYOTA

Toyota unveiled the Lunar SUV in collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency

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Masten's XL-1 lunar lander will carry science and technology probes to the moon's south pole in 2022. Image: Masten Space Systems

NASA chose the Masten company to build and launch scientific instruments to the moon

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Fireproof fabric experiment for fire fighters. Photo: NASA

Apollo by-products - NASA list

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Genesis, the commercial version of Genesis that IAI will develop for FIREFLY. From the company website

IAI will develop a lunar lander for one of NASA's subcontractors in the return to the moon project - Artemis

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Houston-based Intuitive Machining has proposed flying up to five probes to a scientifically intriguing dark spot on the moon Credit: Intuitive Machining

NASA selects the initial commercial lunar landing services for the Artemis program

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The landing compartment of the Apollo 13 spacecraft as photographed in 2014 on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: shutterstock

50 years since man landed on the moon, let's get things sorted

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The "moon gate" in its orbit around the moon. Image: NASA

The Moongate satellite - one of the components of the Artemis program - will be purchased from a private company

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