Australia’s Fleet Space Technologies has raised $100 million to expand its satellite-based mineral exploration capabilities and take the technology to the moon.

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ESA is calling for visionary ideas for how to use a constellation of communication and navigation satellites around the Moon to establish lunar businesses – and unlock opportunities on Earth. […]

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Through agile development and cooperation, Lunar Outpost and Johns Hopkins APL will send a rover to the Moon to explore Reiner Gamma. Lunar Outpost, Inc. has delivered its first flight […]

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NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35 million Tipping Point partnership today to continue advancing its innovative Blue Alchemist breakthrough revealed earlier this year. Blue Alchemist is a proposed end-to-end, scalable, […]

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As part of NASA’s regular cadence of robotic lunar missions through Artemis, the agency has selected a new scientific payload to establish the age and composition of hilly terrain created […]

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Scientists have ‘reset the clock’ for craters on the Moon, meaning that parts of its surface – which characterise the children’s story of the Man in the Moon – are […]

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A new instrument type has discovered evidence of a volcanic process on the Moon that had only been seen on Earth. “Before the 1950’s, most scientists thought the craters on […]

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Looking to the not-too-distant future when the European Service Module will propel European astronauts in the Orion spacecraft to the Gateway and on to the surface of the Moon, scientists […]

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An innovative flashlight to allow scientists to see the dark areas of the Moon to better understand their composition has been selected to participate in NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) […]

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NASA is seeking industry proposals for a next-generation LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) that will allow astronauts to go farther and conduct more science than ever before as they explore the […]

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The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was launched on Dec. 11, 2022, a privately funded spacecraft planned to land on the lunar surface.  After a several-month journey to the […]

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A team of students and researchers are using virtual reality (VR) to bring ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander concept to life at the European Astronaut Centre. Argonaut is a lunar lander […]

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With the success of NASA’s Artemis I mission and the agency recently naming the Artemis II crew, progress towards humanity’s first-ever journey to the lunar South Pole region during Artemis […]

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As NASA works toward sending astronauts to the Moon through Artemis missions, one of the agency’s primary goals is to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. Resources like […]

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Today, Crescent Space Services LLC announced its entry into the lunar infrastructure sector. Crescent Space is a new commercial company launched by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) that provides infrastructure-as-a-service for […]

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Rolls-Royce today announces it has secured funding from UK Space Agency, as it backs research by Rolls-Royce into how nuclear power could be used to support a future Moon base […]

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NASA’s first robotic lunar rover is officially coming together and the team building it is over the Moon. “I’m super excited…it makes me very proud of all the time and […]

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A modified commercial off-the-shelf mass spectrometer built to withstand the harsh lunar environment safely arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday, Feb. 27. The Mass Spectrometer Observing […]

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A spacesuit prototype of what NASA astronauts, including the first woman, plan to wear on the surface of the Moon during the agency’s Artemis III mission, is set for reveal […]

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Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. announced today that it has successfully closed its $5m Seed with this financing round being oversubscribed. The round has been led by Scout Ventures and joined […]

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are working together to develop a science instrument that will survive the harsh and unforgiving environment […]

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NASA’s 2023 annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge asks college students to design technologies that will support a metal production pipeline on the Moon – from extracting metal […]

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ESA is inviting private space companies in Europe and Canada to create a shared commercial telecommunication and navigation service for lunar missions by putting a constellation of satellites around the […]

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The UK Space Agency has announced over £50 million for UK companies to develop communication and navigation services for missions to the Moon. The new funding is part of the […]

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