Landing on the moon may soon be much easier thanks to NASA's Lunar Retroreflector Array network being carried to the lunar surface on international and commercial landers. When you purchase through ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently bounced a laser off India's Vikram moon lander, marking a space-communications first. Vikram touched down near the lunar south pole on Aug. 23, 2023 ...

Italian Space Agency and iSpace-Europe to deploy the palm-sized optical device on the dark side of the Moon. ispace-Europe and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a deal to transport a compact ...

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LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE), the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, inc., and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a payload services agreement to ...

NASA delivered the first flight hardware for the Lunar Pathfinder mission to ESA (European Space Agency), which formally accepted the instrument on Nov. 4. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

An orbiting instrument named LOLA succeeded in sending a laser beam to ping India's Vikram lander on the lunar surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to ...

NASA/GSFC intends to purchase an Engineering Model and two (2) Flight Laser Retroflector Arrays from ITE, Inc pursuant to the requirements of FAR 13.106, for the acquisition of supplies or services ...

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