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ispace’s Resilience Lander Enters Lunar Orbit Ahead of June 5 Touchdown

Tokyo-based ispace’s second lunar lander, Resilience, completed lunar orbit injection at 20:41 UTC on May 6, positioning it for a landing attempt on June 5 at Mare Frigoris in the Moon’s northern hemisphere.

2025-05-07T03:07:15.384618-07:00

Bloomberg

Interlune Secures Partnerships to Harvest Helium-3 from Lunar Regolith

2025-05-07T08:23:41.475436-07:00

Payload

Trump’s 2026 “Skinny Budget” Proposes 24% NASA Cut, Axes SLS, Orion, Gateway and Mars Sample Return

2025-05-02T08:40:43.602197-07:00

SpaceNews.com

Lockheed Martin Delivers Flight-Ready Orion Capsule for Artemis II Moon Mission

2025-05-02T04:56:48.280553-07:00

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SpaceNews.com

Commercial Lunar Lander Market Balances Rivalry and Partnerships under NASA’s CLPS NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program remains the principal source of demand for private lunar landers, awarding contracts that pit multiple firms against each other while also fostering strategic collaborations to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon.

2025-05-08T04:04:38.978303-07:00

Commercial Lunar Lander Market Balances Rivalry and Partnerships under NASA’s CLPS

Space Policy Online

NASA Scraps Commercial Partnership Search for VIPER Rover, Eyes Alternative Delivery NASA has canceled its solicitation for commercial partners to launch the VIPER rover after deeming all 11 industry proposals unacceptable. The agency will now pursue alternative delivery methods to get the $450 million Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer to the lunar surface in support of Artemis objectives.

2025-05-07T20:57:41.971471-07:00

NASA Scraps Commercial Partnership Search for VIPER Rover, Eyes Alternative Delivery

Bloomberg

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Interlune Secures Partnerships to Harvest Helium-3 from Lunar Regolith Interlune has signed strategic agreements to develop an integrated system for excavating, sorting and extracting helium-3 from the Moon’s soil. The move positions the company at the forefront of commercial lunar resource utilization, targeting a potential fusion fuel market.

2025-05-07T08:23:41.475436-07:00

Interlune Secures Partnerships to Harvest Helium-3 from Lunar Regolith

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ispace’s Resilience Lander Enters Lunar Orbit Ahead of June 5 Touchdown Tokyo-based ispace’s second lunar lander, Resilience, completed lunar orbit injection at 20:41 UTC on May 6, positioning it for a landing attempt on June 5 at Mare Frigoris in the Moon’s northern hemisphere.

2025-05-07T03:07:15.384618-07:00

ispace’s Resilience Lander Enters Lunar Orbit Ahead of June 5 Touchdown

Japan Times

Ispace CEO Hakamada Envisions Permanent Moon Outposts but Won’t Be First Tenant Ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada outlined a vision for permanent human outposts on the Moon enabled by next-generation starships and landers, even as he candidly admits he’ll never be among the first lunar settlers. His roadmap underscores the gap between ambition and reality.

2025-05-07T02:12:11.728842-07:00

Ispace CEO Hakamada Envisions Permanent Moon Outposts but Won’t Be First Tenant

Space.com

US House Panel Advances Bill to Standardize Lunar Timekeeping A bill to establish a unified time standard for lunar missions has sailed through the House Committee on Space and Aeronautics and now heads to a full House vote. Lawmakers say a standard lunar clock is critical to synchronizing NASA, commercial and international operations on the moon.

2025-05-05T03:08:52.006493-07:00

US House Panel Advances Bill to Standardize Lunar Timekeeping

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Paul Van Hoeydonck, sculptor of Apollo 15’s ‘Fallen Astronaut,’ dies at 99 Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, creator of the ‘Fallen Astronaut’ figurine left on the moon by Apollo 15 in 1971 to honor fallen space explorers, died on May 3 at his home in Antwerp. He was 99.

2025-05-03T18:14:34.323580-07:00

Paul Van Hoeydonck, sculptor of Apollo 15’s ‘Fallen Astronaut,’ dies at 99

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Lego partners with Lunar Outpost on Moon Rover Space Vehicle set debuting August 1 Lego and Lunar Outpost will roll out the Moon Rover Space Vehicle set on August 1, marking the first official Lego model of a U.S. teleoperated lunar rover. The release includes two additional builds inspired by real-world robotic explorers targeting future Moon missions.

2025-05-03T11:49:35.505117-07:00

Lego partners with Lunar Outpost on Moon Rover Space Vehicle set debuting August 1

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