Every half-meter it descends, the drilling system will pause and extend a custom-built thermal probe into the lunar regolith. LISTER will measure two different aspects of heat flow: thermal ...

NCU's Deep Space Radiation Probe (DSRP) was aboard the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander developed by Japanese space ...

"Bearing our banners far and wide" is getting a whole new meaning at Texas Tech University this week. In the spirit of those words in Tech's "Matador Song," one of Texas Tech's professors is bearing ...

The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface while calculating possible risks from cameras mounted on the spacecraft. At mission control, technicians could only monitor ...

Japan’s space agency announced on Jan. 22 that its lunar probe, which landed on the moon two days earlier, has transmitted flight data and images back to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang Kejian ...

Just last month, NASA launched a small probe called the Lunar Flashlight toward the moon. The small probe was expected to test a new green propellant on its four-month voyage to the moon ...

Four temperature probes beneath the terminals of the rails began to measure the temperature of ... they have found that the average bulk density at the landing site is about 471 kg per cubic meter and ...

delivered an architecture broadly consistent with the requirements for a Probe mission. This notional architecture consists of 128 dual polarization antennas deployed across a 10 km area by a rover, ...

The researchers also hinted at an ongoing thermal convection in the moon's ... collected from the moon's far side by the Chang'e 6 lunar probe. These two studies together suggest that the moon's ...

Firefly Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander launches tomorrow to go to the moon with a lot of new science gear including the PlanetVac.