NASA selects Intuitive Machines for 2027 lunar mission to south pole
This upcoming mission builds on Intuitive Machines' previous successes, including the delivery of NASA payloads to the Moon's South Pole earlier in 2024.
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This upcoming mission builds on Intuitive Machines' previous successes, including the delivery of NASA payloads to the Moon's South Pole earlier in 2024.
The camp aims to go beyond the classroom, providing a hands-on experience that showcases the realities of space exploration.
NASA will assume ownership of the spacecraft after its development and manage its operations throughout the mission.
The mission aims to study in-depth the effect of space flight simulated on Earth to support future long-duration space endeavours.
A commercial lunar platform includes everything from payload integration and operations, to launching from Earth and landing on the surface of the Moon.
Existing space treaties do not entirely cover recent developments such as commercial and private operations. But with cosmic highways becoming busier than ever, operators and insurers are looking at alternative ...
The first Deimos fly-by took place in late January, and as the probe moves to its closest approach to the moon, it will take high-resolution images.
Hyundai and Kia will contribute to the mission with their robotic technologies and software and hardware design expertise.
Egypt is active in the MVA Participation of Emerging Space Countries (PESC) project, which aims at developing a national road map for Egypt to participate in lunar exploration.
The lunar rover is set to be manufactured in 2022, while preliminary experiments and tests of the prototype are expected to start in 2023.
The engineering teams from Airbus, the European Space Agency (ESA), Lockheed Martin and NASA were involved in the testing.
The SLS is being designed to be the rocket platform that sends humans back to the Moon and deeper into the solar system.
