The lunar South Pole has drawn sustained attention from scientists, space agencies, and commercial innovators due to its potential reserves of water ice and its strategic value for long-term exploration. […]
Lunar
NASA awards Solstar Space an SBIR contract to develop lunar Wi-Fi system
Solstar Space (Solstar) has been awarded a NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract valued at $150,000 to develop a next-generation Lunar Wi-Fi Access Point (LWIFI-AP) to support […]
Impulse Space unveils proposed mission architecture to deliver more mass to the lunar surface
Impulse Space has unveiled a proposed mission architecture for delivering multiple tons of cargo to the Moon in the near term—the plan combines Impulse’s existing Helios kick stage and a […]
Firefly Aerospace receives $10 million NASA contract addendum for Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar data
Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY) has received a $10 million contract addendum under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative for acquisition of additional science and operational data collected beyond the […]
Blue Origin’s major milestone toward permanent + sustainable lunar infrastructure
Blue Origin has revealed that the company’s in-space resource utilization system, Blue Alchemist, has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR), marking a transformative milestone toward humanity’s permanent expansion beyond […]
Astrobotics’ LunaGrid-Lite completes CDR and the flight model is now underway
Astrobotic Technology has announced that its planned lunar power demonstration mission, LunaGrid-Lite, has reached another major development milestone and is nearing flight readiness. LunaGrid-Lite (LGL) will deploy 500 meters of […]
Thales Alenia Space Italy to develop the first lunar human outpost with ASI
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to perform the preliminary design phase, including development […]
SFL Missions Inc. included on team awarded ESA contract for a Moon mapping study
SFL Missions Inc. is a member of the team led by NUVIEW GmbH that has been contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a Pre-Phase A study, within […]
Sierra Space awarded Lunar logistics contract by NASA
Sierra Space has won a significant contract from NASA to study the use of the company’s expandable space station technology on the moon. The purpose of this contract will be […]
Recom InSite debuts time-based mobility of RF systems, Lunar propagation + wideband ray-tracing
Remcom has a new version of Wireless InSite® 3D Wireless Prediction Software with advanced capabilities that include time-based mobility, lunar propagation modeling, and wideband ray-tracing with S-parameter outputs. This new […]