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 […]
Lunar Services
NASA acquires GPS signals on the Moon
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3rd when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals […]
JAXA’s SLIM ending lunar services
The Japanese moon lander, SLIM, will cease all lunar surface services shortly after contact attempts by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), now the fifth country to have successfully landed […]