Qiu Chenhui of China Youth Daily reports based on an April 15 presentation by a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researcher Zhang Hao on how the latter’s team managed to put the twin DRO-A and DRO-B ...

Multi-agency instruments planned to be on the LUPEX rover. Image: JAXA / M. Ohtake, et al. India approved the joint ISRO-JAXA Chandrayaan 5 / LUPEX mission to drill and analyze water ice on the Moon.

Illustration showing the distribution of permanently shadowed regions (in blue) on the Moon’s south pole, superimposed on a digital elevation map. Image: NASA / GSFC / Timothy McClanahan / LOLA The ...

India has formally approved the joint ISRO-JAXA Chandrayaan 5 (LUPEX) mission to study water ice on the Moon’s south pole. The mission and its approval are notable in many ways as we’ll see below.