🇯🇵 Most #landers last about one lunar day (roughly two Earth weeks) before being wrecked by the extremely frigid lunar night. Some temperature 🌡️ sensors and unused battery cells 🔋 are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was maintained even after the second lunar night 💪 https://interestingengineering.com/space/japan-lander-survives-2nd-lethal-lunar-night
In 📆 2019 #NASA paid #Astrobotic $79.5 million 💵 and #IntuitiveMachines $77 million 💵 for the companies’ imminent missions—a fraction 〽️ of what it has spent on robotic #landers in the past.
#Peregrine will be carrying a device measuring how water 💦 molecules move around the lunar surface as sunlight heats it up. A NASA neutron spectrometer will look for #hydrogen-bearing minerals in the regolith near Peregrine. #Astrobotic will be delivering a #water-hunting #NASA #rover called #VIPER https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/two-private-u-s-moon-landers-prepare-for-historic-launches/
#MIT Technology Review 📆 December 22, 2022 What’s next in #space in 2023 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
▶️ Moon landings
• first #private mission #Hakuto to land on the #moon🌙 in 📆 March, by #ispace, #UAE #emirates
• #private #landers #Peregrine, #Nova-C, by #Astrobotic, #IntuitiveMachines
• #Chandrayaan-3, #SLIM by #India 🇮🇳 and #Japan 🇯🇵 #spaceagencies
• #Luna-25 by #Russia 🇷🇺
▶️ Private #spacetravel
• #PolarisDawn #CrewDragon to an #orbit of 1,200 km by #SpaceX, Jared #Isaacman
• #Axiom-2, Axiom-3 to #ISS by #SpaceX
• #Starliner to #ISS by #Boeing
• #NewShepard to 100 km by #BlueOrigin
▶️ #solarsystem
• #JUICE to #Jupiter's #Ganymede, #Callisto, #Europa🌙 by #ESA
• #Euclid #telescope 🔭 by #SpaceX, #ESA
• #Psyche by #NASA
▶️ #LEO
• #Kuiper by #ULA, #Amazon
▶️ #heavylift #rockets
• #Starship 🚀 to #LEO by SpaceX
• #VulcanCentaur 🚀 by #ULA
• #NewGlenn 🚀 by #BlueOrigin
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/22/1065722/whats-next-in-space-in-2023/
Three proposals for NASA's Human Landing System, part of its upcoming Artemis program of lunar exploration. The one proposed by SpaceX (left one in the image) is so tall, it's adding an elevator to get astronauts to the surface. The other ones are by Dynetics and Blue Origins.
More details in this article by IEEE Spectrum.