Sentences with phrase «lunar lander from»

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In the weeks since, NASA officials have started sketching out how that effort might unfold — from a series of small commercial landers, to larger NASA landers, to a multinational space station near the Moon that could serve as a base for robots and astronauts travelling to the lunar surface.

Their results, published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, imply that events from Solar System history that are recorded on much of the visible face of the Moon can one day be dated directly by instruments aboard a lunar lander.

In mid-January, NASA announced its lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) programme, which will give participants access to resources including NASA scientists, software and testing labs in exchange for the rights to lander designs born from the partnership.

To do this, the programme includes a design for the Orion crew capsule with up to six seats, the Altair lunar lander, and a new booster system called Ares, which uses components from both the Apollo - era Saturn rocket and the space shuttle.

A group of American space scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) saw and photographed the lunar lander and a return module during a visit to the Moscow Aviation Institute last November.

It's also part of every science challenge, from building a lunar lander out of notecards to inventing new software.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»