Commercial Lunar Delivery Explained
Commercial lunar delivery connects spacecraft engineering with a scientific service. The result depends on interfaces, landing, surface resources, and data return.
Exploration
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Exploration connects the questions scientists want to answer with the spacecraft and operations needed to answer them. This archive covers lunar missions, robotic probes and the practical work of investigating distant environments. Historical plans are retained with their original dates and source notes.
A mission announcement, a launch, arrival at a destination and a completed investigation are separate events. Read individual articles for their instruments, objectives and reported status. Supporting features explain mission architecture and operational constraints without treating an old projected date as a current promise.
German-led team proposes spherical probe to explore lunar caves
As part of the European Space Agency’s larger study of lunar cave mission concepts, a German-led team is proposing the use of a spherical…
NASA reconnects with Voyager 2 over 18 billion kilometers from Earth
NASA mission operators successfully sent a series of commands to the agency’s Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-march. The spacecraft, which…