Stories about opportunities and missions on the Moon.
While the LTV contractors take different approaches to meet NASA’s requirements—from a rugged truck, to a tractor-trailor configuration—they have similar goals for future commercial customers looking to hitch a ride.
Getting to the Moon is about to get a whole lot easier—at least, if Impulse Space can execute on its new mission.
Despite two solid efforts, ispace has yet to successfully land on the lunar surface—and the company’s financial position reflects that.
Future missions to the Moon are going to need power. A lot of it.
“Integrity” was Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen’s idea to represent “peace and hope for all humankind.”
In the 21st century space race, the contest to reach the Moon feels less like the Cold War and more like Wacky Races.
VIPER has slithered its way out of an early grave.
ispace is itching for another attempt at a lunar joyride.
The Trump administration’s first big change to the Artemis program is a plan to deliver a 100kw nuclear fission reactor to the lunar surface by 2030, with the job done almost entirely by the private sector.
The challenge of surviving and operating in deep space will be a relatively new one for the private sector.
Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC (LH3M) secured its fifth US patent last month, covering the company’s end-to-end architecture for He-3 detection, extraction, and refinement on the Moon.
SpaceX is scheduled to perform an lunar orbit check-out a year after its first Moon landing—huh?
