Keith’s 29 July note: This was tweeted by Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ earlier today “NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions will be challenging for various reasons & they may not always succeed. We’re willing to accept some risk in order to get back to the Moon quickly with commercial partners, and do exciting science and tech development. While the first three companies selected to carry payloads to the Moon were […]

Bengaluru firm to build moon lander for Nasa 2020 mission, Times of India “Confirming the development, Team Indus engineer Ananth Ramesh told TOI: “Yes, we will be building the lander. It is most likely to be built in India too.” Team Indus CEO Rahul Narayan was in the US to sign the contract documents on Thursday.” America’s first private moon lander will be engineered in India, Quartz “Orbit Beyond, which […]