The Moon is the only other world people have walked on, during the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. Space agencies and companies are now sending landers, rovers and crews back. These stories cover Moon missions past and present.
Space
NASA's Starling mission demonstrated GPS-free satellite navigation by using other spacecraft and orbital debris as reference points, a first for optical space navigation.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
A lunar excavator built by Interlune and Vermeer processes 100 metric tons of Moon rock per hour, targeting NASA's Moon Base programme…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
China's Tianwen-2 entered orbit around asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on 7 June 2026, beginning a sample return mission that could confirm the rock is…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Aerospace, Defence & MarineBreakthroughs
SpaceX's Starship V3 test flight launched from Starbase Texas, standing 124m tall with 33 Raptor 3 engines and carrying 20 mock Starlink…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Aerospace, Defence & MarineBreakthroughs
The Artemis II moon mission tested heat shields, life support, and spacecraft systems on humanity's first crewed lunar flight since 1972.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
HealthBreakthroughs
Organ chip space medicine technology flew on Artemis II, testing personalised bone marrow chips to study deep space radiation effects on astronaut…
Careers Biomedical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
The Artemis II launch sends four astronauts on a ten-day lunar flyby, testing the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft with shuttle-era RS-25…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Space
NASA's Artemis II moon mission rocket has returned to Launch Pad 39B after engineers repaired a helium system fault, targeting an April…
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Space
For the first time since 1972, people are leaving Earth's orbit. Not in a simulator, not in low Earth orbit. Actually going…
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
SpaceBreakthroughs
NASA Langley finalises advanced engineering systems for Artemis II lunar mission, featuring 8.8M lbs thrust rockets, cryogenic propulsion, and robotic infrastructure for…
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Space
Japanese startup Ispace confirmed the loss of its Resilience lunar lander on June 5, 2025, after the spacecraft failed to achieve a soft landing on the moon's surface.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
SpaceBreakthroughs
Japanese lunar exploration company Ispace and Chuo University have formalized a partnership to assess the feasibility of deploying AI-equipped robots to explore lunar lava tubes starting in 2028.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Careers guides
Once considered a subset of electrical engineering, electronic and electronic systems engineering has now emerged as an essential field in its own right, mirroring…
Careers guides
Being an engineer is not just one profession but covers those working in many different engineering fields. Over the coming weeks we are going…
Careers guides
Have you ever used a mobile phone, cooked your food in a microwave, or flicked the lights on a dark winter morning? Electrical technology…
Careers guides
As part of our new series of resources on Engineering Career paths, we are doing a deep dive into Civil Engineering and the various…