ispace Japan’s Hakuto-R lunar lander successfully entered orbit around our Moon on March 21, making it the second such private company following…
The U.S. Presidential FY 2024 budget request seeks $27.2 billion in funding for NASA from the U.S. Congress, a 7% increase over the $25.4 billion…
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy are co-developing LuSEE-Night, a first of its kind instrument which will measure faint but unique radio signals…
ispace Japan’s first Moon lander is approaching our Moon for an orbital capture attempt in late March while JAXA recruited two new astronaut candidates…

February 2023

Scientists urge NASA to plan a replacement for the 2009-launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to support the increasingly important, upcoming…
ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 lander successfully passed electromagnetic interference testing, which checked in a Faraday cage chamber if the lander’s electrical…
Updates on some key ongoing and upcoming lunar missions, and ESA’s push for more commercial Moon landers.
NASA has changed the target landing site for Astrobotic’s first Moon lander from a northeastern lava plain to near the Gruithuisen volcanic domes in the…

January 2023

While NASA has already selected the technology stack to be used for the historic return of humans to the Moon with Artemis III, the science end is now…
JAXA and ISRO are pressing ahead with their joint rover mission to study water ice on the Moon’s south pole.
Thanks to the ultra-sensitive ShadowCam instrument, South Korea’s KPLO lunar orbiter now enables meticulously planning resource prospecting missions…
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2023 promises 3 robotic Moon landing attempts from the U.S., 2 from Japan, and one each from India and Russia. Here are the latest available updates on…