![]() Next up, NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft and ispace Japan’s first Moon lander will orbit the Moon briefly sometime end of November or early December. China’s Chang’e 5 service module, in a Distant Retrograde Orbit.China’s Queqiao relay satellite for Chang’e 4, halo orbiting Earth-Moon L2.Air Force contract for a cislunar patrolling craft. Relatedly, Advanced Space recently won a $72 million U.S. The CAPSTONE team deserves the fruits of this success, for they practically fully recovered a failing spacecraft and managed to have it enter the intended lunar orbit despite a faulty valve in one of the spacecraft’s eight thrusters. Illustration of the CAPSTONE spacecraft orbiting the Moon in its intended Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit (shown in the inset image). Over the next 6 months, CAPSTONE will help refine our mathematical models of this fuel-efficient orbit based on the exact propellant and power needed to maintain said orbit. CAPSTONE will execute two small correction maneuvers this week to ensure being on the precise intended orbit. This is the same orbit that the NASA-led international Gateway station for astronauts will be in later this decade. On November 13, the NASA-funded and Advanced Space-led CAPSTONE spacecraft successfully executed a 16-minute burn of 0.44 Newtons at the right time as it flew by the Moon and entered into its intended unique Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit. This is the final edition of The Lunar Review, a weekly compilation of news, studies and other developments about the Moon. A longtime writer for, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series coming in November. Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," to be published by National Geographic this October. "One driver of this renewed interest in the moon is to assess the economic feasibility of using lunar resources for sustaining human surface-exploration activities," the brochure states.ĭata from recent moon-orbiting missions and new analyses of lunar material brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts "show that the moon is the closest place to Earth where we can find clues to the history of the solar system, including that of the early Earth and of the formation of the Earth-moon system," the brochure notes.Īdditionally, insights into the environment in which life began on Earth nearly 4 billion years ago "could be preserved in previously unexplored areas, such as the poles, the highlands and the far side of the moon," the brochure explains.Īttendees of the recent moon-exploration meeting gave Wörner's moon village vision a positive reception, according to the brochure. The brochure draws upon findings from a conference called "International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030: A New Era of Human and Robotic Exploration," which was held in December at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. That view is expressed in a new ESA brochure now in circulation. Lunar exploration will likely get a big boost in the next decade, thanks to rising interest in the moon in Europe and other parts of the world. ESA’S Johann-Dietrich Wörner backs development of an international "moon village." (Image credit: Courtesy Space Foundation/Tom Kimmell Photography)
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