By Monica Witt and Jena RoweNASA Press Release, 16 April 2021 NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the
by Mark Episkopos, Published by National Interest, 14 March 2021 Will Biden continue cooperation with Moscow in space despite deteriorating ties? China and Russia have agreed to jointly build a lunar space station, the latest instance of steadily deepening ties between Beijing and Moscow. Earlier this week, China’s National Space
Northrop Grumman stock image. By Staff Writers, Published in Moon Daily, 9 March 2021 Bethesda MD (SPX) -The space community is moving beyond Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and expanding more activities toward the Moon and in cislunar space, i. e., lying between the earth and the moon or the moon's orbit.
Image: Space Daily By Lucie Aubourg, Published in Space Daily, 5 March 2021 Washington (AFP) - A prototype of SpaceX's unmanned rocket Starship exploded on Wednesday, the third time a test flight ended in flames. The mishaps may seem like disasters but experts say these incidents are part of the
DARPA NOM4D project image By Theresa Hitchens,Published in Breaking Defense, 12 February, 2021 "As you surely know, there is a lot of emotion in this on both sides of the argument, making it as much political as it is legal," said attorney Henry Hertzfeld of the DARPA plans. WASHINGTON: DARPA’s
Intuitive Machines will launch its IM-2 lunar lander mission, carrying a set of NASA payloads, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than 2022. Credit: Intuitive Machines by Jeff Foust, Published in Space News - 13 January, 2021 WASHINGTON — SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a
NEW DELHI, INDIA -Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) from Mission Shakti during Republic Day Parade at Rajpath, on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, india. (Photo by Ramesh Pathania/Mint via Getty Images) By Eric Berger, Published by Ars Technica, 16 October 2020 “Any conflict in space will be much slower and more
Image: DARPA By Mike Wall, Space.com - September 30, 2020 DARPA awarded a $14 million task order to help make it happen. The U.S. military aims to get a nuclear thermal rocket up and running, to boost its ability to monitor the goings-on in Earth-moon space. The Defense Advanced Research
