M1 was due to land in the previously unexplored Atlas Crater (right) in the Moon’s northern hemisphere.Credit: Damian Peach/Science Photo Library By Gemma Conrot & Miryam Naddaf, Published by nature, 26 April 2023 Mission control was unable to re-establish contact with the M1 spacecraft, and early signs suggest it crash-landed
By Miryam Naddaf, Published by nature, 25 April 2023 The Japanese-built ispace lander, carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, could be the first private venture to land on the lunar surface. Update: ispace attempted the landing on 25 April, but lost contact with M1 during the last few
By Oliver Homes, Published by the Guardian, 20 April 2023 Largest and most powerful rocket ever built blasts off on test flight that is hoped to be step on human journey to Mars The largest and most powerful rocket ever built has blasted off from Texas but blew up within
By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 19 April 2023 SpaceX has never been reluctant to brag, especially when it comes to its celebrated Falcon 9 rocket. Since 2010, as a company toteboard shows, 217 Falcon 9s have flown, with 61 launches in 2022 alone, making it the workhorse of the
By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 17 April 2023 Time was, nobody gave much thought to the town of Boca Chica, a little community at the toe of Texas, hard up against the Gulf of Mexico. Distinguished mostly by its proximity to the city of Brownsville, the county seat of
By Richard Outram, Published by the Nuclear Free Local Authorities, 12 April 2023 It may mirror the plot of classic ‘70s British sci-fi series, Space 1999, which also features a moon base and the threat posed by radioactive waste, but the UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities also have real concerns
By Josie Ensor, Published by The Telegraph, 9 April 2023 Rocket designed to take man to the Red Planet is ready for test launch in days, says billionaire's firm SpaceX is on the cusp of sending its Starship - the most powerful rocket ever built - into orbit, in the
Space Outpost’s MAPP lunar rover is scheduled to go to space in November of this year as a payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Image: Lunar Outpost By Kyle Barr, Published by Gizmodo, 27 March 2023 Lunar Outpost will engrave a crypto wallet passcode on its MAPP Lunar Rover
