artemis program

  1. Grey Havoc

    NASA Low cost OTV studies (2025)

    Though it might be more accurate to describe most of the OTV designs here as expendable payload busses, though in at least in some cases they will have cislunar capability. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-six-companies-to-provide-orbital-transfer-vehicle-studies/...
  2. Flyaway

    Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

    I think NASA research into this goes back a good while now, and certainly across a few presidential administrations. Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172 View...
  3. Grey Havoc

    Lunar Celestial Reference System / Lunar Coordinate Time

    https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/15/0145200/researchers-figure-out-how-to-keep-clocks-on-the-earth-moon-in-sync https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/nist_lunar_orbit_clocks/
  4. southwestforests

    NASA wants fresh ideas for recycling garbage on the moon

    Hey Y'all; just saw this, NASA wants fresh ideas for recycling garbage on the moon News By Samantha Mathewson published 18 July 2024 With crewed Artemis launches on the horizon, NASA is searching for sustainable solutions for waste management during long-term missions on the moon...
  5. Grey Havoc

    CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment)

    Long overdue for its own topic, previously news & info on it was being posted over in the Rocket Lab Launcher thread: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone CAPSTONE is being funded by the Advanced Exploration Systems office of NASA's Exploration Systems...
  6. Flyaway

    VIPER Lunar Rover

    ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER JUNE 11, 2020 Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic, the world’s leading lunar logistics service...
  7. F

    Artemis Moon Program

    Artemis is the overall NASA program aimed at re-establishing manned lunar exploration which includes the "lunar gateway". A human rated, reusable lander is being developed using the model of the commercial crew program. The schedule goal is to conduct the first, un-crewed landing in 2024...
  8. Grey Havoc

    Lunar Gateway

    Previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G). https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-throws-doubt-joint-lunar-space-station-u-105357218--finance.html http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Airbus_wins_ESA_studies_for_future_human_base_in_lunar_orbit_999.html
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