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Russia Reveals Joint Plan with China to Put Nuclear Plant on the Moon

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced on Tuesday that it is “seriously considering” building a nuclear power plant on the moon in cooperation with China’s Communist government. The agency’s CEO, Yuri Borisov, said Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will develop plans for the construction of a robotic lunar reactor, as well as supplying […]

Toppled moon lander sends back more images, with only hours left until it dies

The lunar lander, which ended up on its side, managed to send back more photos even though it had only hours left before it died. Intuitive Machines on Tuesday posted new photos of the moon’s unexplored south polar region. The company’s Odysseus lander took the photo last Thursday, just before the United States became the […]

Odysseus craft’s moon mission to be cut short after sideways landing | Space

Flight control engineers lost contact with the U.S. commercial lunar lander Odysseus on Tuesday and expect the mission to be aborted five days after its side landing, said Intuitive Machines, the company that developed the spacecraft. announced. It remains to be seen how much scientific data will be lost as a result of Odysseus’ shortened […]

Intuitive Machines shares plummet after Odysseus moon lander tips over

Shares of Houston-based Intuitive Machines fell more than 25% on Monday after the company announced that its lunar lander, Odysseus, had tipped over and was lying on its side. The company was the first private company to land on the moon and the first from the United States since 1972, but all but one of […]