MOON - SEED DAILY

China to launch Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2020

Oct 29, 2019 (XNA)

The Long March-5 carrier rocket, China's current largest launch vehicle, will be used to send the probe into space, Wu, also an academician of the Chinese Acade...

ISRO releases new images captured by Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Oct 28, 2019 (IANS)

According to ISRO, the Moon has been continuously bombarded by meteorites, asteroids and comets since its formation. This has resulted in the formation of innum...

New VIPER lunar rover to map water ice on the Moon

Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)

About the size of a golf cart, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will roam several miles, using its four science instruments - incl...

Indian, Japanese space agencies to launch joint lunar mission study in 2023

Oct 25, 2019 (Sputnik)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in partnership with India, has aimed to launch the feasibility study of their first-ever joint lunar mission in 20...

ISRO captures specifics of secondary craters in Moon's south polar region

Oct 24, 2019 (Sputnik)

The latest images sent by India's second Lunar Probe's Rover present many interesting facts about the secondary craters of different ages and origins in the lun...

Invest in Artemis to get a ride to Moon: US

Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)

The United States plans to return to the Moon under the Artemis program in order to set up a long-term colony and test technologies for a crewed mission to Mars...

China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 11th lunar day

Oct 24, 2019 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 5:11 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday. Both are in normal working conditi...

NASA finds no traces of ISRO Vikram lunar lander

Oct 24, 2019 (Sputnik)

The Indian Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was put into lunar orbit on 20 August. During the mission, the Vikram lander was supposed to target a patch of high ground b...

Blue Origin's moon deal with Lockheed, other firms, signals new era

Oct 22, 2019 (UPI)

Until now, Blue Origin functioned as a standalone startup, funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' billions. It was seen chiefly as a competitor to new space compa...

All-female spacewalk duo set sights on Moon

Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)

As a child in elementary school, marine biologist Meir recalled drawing pictures of herself standing on the barren world orbiting our own. "So I think maybe I'l...

NASA wants international partners to go to Moon too

Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)

"I think there's lots of room on the Moon, and we need all our international partners to go with us to the Moon," NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine told report...

India's second Moon mission begins spectroscopic studies of lunar surface

Oct 18, 2019 (Sputnik)

The Rover has now started collecting data on the lunar surface and atmosphere. The Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) onboard the lunar probe is designed to m...

China's first astronaut expects stepping onto Moon

Oct 17, 2019 (XNA)

He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2003, according to the China Manned Space Agen...

Planned new rocket carries hope for China's manned lunar landing program

Oct 17, 2019 (XNA)

A pre-study for the carrier rocket, conducted by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) under the CASC, has passed a review by the China Manned S...

Russia's ability to return to the Moon in near future in question

Oct 17, 2019 (Sputnik)

US-based science news outlet Ars Technica has questioned whether Russia has the capability to land robotic rovers on the Moon in the near future, pointing to a ...

The lunar cycle drives the nightjar's migration

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

Every year, billions of seasonal migrants connect continents by transporting nutrients, energy and pathogens between distant communities and ecosystems. If acce...

Orion suit equipped to expect the unexpected on Artemis missions

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

Many missions require two spacesuits - one worn outside a spacecraft during spacewalks that is designed as a self-contained personal spaceship, and another worn...

Spacebit aims to land first UK rover on the Moon

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

Spacebit will send the smallest robotic moon rover in the world, with legs and not wheels. This will be the very first time in history anything with legs will b...

Study suggests ice on lunar south pole may have more than one source

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

Ariel Deutsch, a graduate student in Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the study's lead author, says that constra...

Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun Science at the Moon

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

The mission, now renamed THEMIS-ARTEMIS, uses spacecraft that were originally apart of the mission known as Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions d...