Thales has secured a nearly $900 million contract from the ESA to develop the Lunar Descent Element (LDE) for the Argonaut cargo lander. This lander is crucial for ESA’s missions to the Moon in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) isn’t ruling out programme cuts or freezes if proposed budget cuts to the American space agency NASA are passed by the US Congress later this year. NASA’s 2026 ...

The Lunar Gateway, he said, is important for "cultivating that and making sure it endures." There are other ways international partners can contribute to NASA's human exploration program.

ESA is engaged in the program and contributing to Artemis' Gateway project. Europe also plans to land its Argonaut spacecraft on the moon around 2031, while numerous private missions are planned ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The United Arab Emirates has selected Thales Alenia Space to build an airlock module for the lunar Gateway despite uncertainty about the future of that NASA-led program.

Keeping up with the naming tradition of space missions and hardware, they call it Argonaut, in honor of the ancient Greek sailors that set out to look for the golden fleece. It has been imagined ...

The module will serve as ESA's habitation unit aboard the Gateway, designed to support long-duration lunar missions. As part of the deal, Redwire is set to supply one active International Berthing ...

Astronauts demonstrate their training in lunar surface simulating conditions for future moon missions, like the Artemis lunar exploration program led by NASA, at the opening of the new LUNA ...

ESA is engaged in the program and contributing to Artemis' Gateway project. Europe also plans to land its Argonaut spacecraft on the moon around 2031, while numerous private missions are planned ...