NASA recently released a technical paper for a mid-sized “pallet lander” system it hopes industry can develop in order to send payload, such as a robotic rover, to the Moon’s south pole.
According to NASA, multiple agency centers contributed to the design and it hopes industry can use part or all of the concept in the Commercial Lunar Payloads Services program, also called CLPS.
Read MoreWith the first spacewalk to repair an important particle physics experiment at the International Space Station completed, preparations for the second are well underway.
Read MoreOver the next month, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will work to fix an important particle physics experiment during a series of spacewalks said to be the most challenging since the Hubble servicing missions.
Read MoreIt was a busy start to the month of November for the International Space Station’s Expedition 61 crew and its ground teams. While one cargo ship left the outpost, another made a trek toward it with new science and fresh supplies.
Read MoreMuch like the Apollo program in the 1960s, the current Artemis program seems to have news every week. NASA’s first Space Launch System rocket recently received its first engine while the agency continues to work with Boeing to secure contracts for the giant vehicles through the end of the next decade.
Read MoreWith NASA’s 2024 Moon landing deadline fast approaching, a number of hardware elements need to be developed and tested in short order. One of those is a lunar surface spacesuit.
On Oct. 4, 2019, NASA announced in a request for information that it was seeking industry feedback to help “refine and mature” a strategy for production and services for spacesuits that will be used by astronauts in the agency’s Artemis Moon program.
Read MoreAstronauts completed the first of up to five spacewalks to replace batteries on the far port side of the International Space Station’s truss and even had time for tasks planned for the next outing.
Expedition 61 Flight Engineers and NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Drew Morgan donned spacesuits Oct. 6, 2019, for a rare Sunday extravehicular activity to start the process of replacing the 12 nickel-hydrogen batteries on the P6 truss segment with six lithium-ion units.
Read MoreBefore NASA begins sending Lunar Gateway hardware into space for the agency’s Artemis program, it plans a pathfinder CubeSat mission in the same deep space orbit around the Moon.
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