Argonaut is designed to deliver supplies, infrastructure and payloads to the moon. It could survive for five years on the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has named Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space as the lead in the Argonaut lander ...

ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut Lunar Descent Element.

The mission involved two separate Saturn V launches: one typical Apollo launch with three astronauts and one uncrewed launch carrying the base. Two astronauts would descend to the Moon’s surface ...

Returning to the Moon requires solving the problem of reliable ... This development comes under the PULSAR consortium, comprised of leading European organizations, which is led by Tractebel ...