Colorado Experiments To Be Sent To Lunar Surface
Payloads For Commercial Lunar Services Providers Include Surface Electromagnetics Experiment, Which Could Be First Radio Telescope On Moon Surface; Co-Investigator Jack Burns Of University Of Colorado Is Also Principal Investigator Of Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder Planned To Orbit Lunar Far Side By 2023; Colorado-Built Experiments For NASA CLPS Include Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System To Explore Moon’s Composition And Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, Which Will Study Moon’s Crust
Credits: Orbit Beyond, University of Colorado Boulder
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) And NASA Agree To Jointly Develop Lunar Payloads And Launch Exploration Science Working Group; Stephen Clarke Of NASA Signs Agreement In Gwacheon With Choi Won-Ho And Choi Young-Jun Of KASI; Korea Scientists Will Develop Three Types Of Payload For Nine Privately Developed NASA Lunar Landers Starting In 2020; Soyeon Yi (L) Is Only Korea National Astronaut So Far; Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Planned For Dec 2020 Launch On SpaceX Falcon 9
National Day Of Space Flight Meetings Are In Changsha 24 April, 49th Observation Of Dongfanghong-1, First Zhongguo Artificial Satellite; Theme Is “Pursue Space Dream For Win-Win Cooperation” With International Partners Contributing Science Experiments To Chang’e-4 And Queqiao Orbiter; Chang’e-4 Returns More Images Of Lunar Far Side While Chang’e-5 Is Planned For Late 2019; China National Space Administration Head Zhang Kejian (R), One Of Time Magazine’s 100 Influential People, Announces Plans To Build Research Station On Lunar South Pole Within 10 Years
Lunar Impact Opens Door For Future Missions; SpaceIL Vows To Attempt Soft Landing With Beresheet 2.0; International Independent Enterprises Like Astrobotic, Moon Express, PTScientists, Team Indus, Team Hakuto, As Well As SpaceX, Blue Origin, And Others All Aim For Moon; SpaceNews Writer