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Moon Express, Inc. (MoonEx) has announced a multi-mission payload agreement with The National Laboratories of Frascati (INFN-LNF) and the University of Maryland to deliver a new generation of lunar ...

In a world first, Chinese scientists have successfully carried out satellite laser ranging between Earth and the Moon in broad daylight. This achievement marks a monumental leap in space exploration, ...

This paper provides an overview of the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiments. The measurement principle is explained and its theory is derived. Both contributors, the direct reflected light from the ...

It’s been nearly five decades since the last astronaut walked on the moon, and until recently I was under the impression that any scientific studies related to the lunar missions pretty much wrapped ...

This photograph shows a mockup laser retroreflector array (LRA) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, demonstrating the basic design: a metallic semi-hemispheric disc, with eight ...