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An agreement between the United States and Japan on contributions for the Artemis lunar exploration campaign could create additional opportunities for a Japanese lunar lander developer.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson informed a House committee that budget constraints resulted in cuts to agency programs and urged them to allocate funds for a space station deorbit vehicle in a supplemental funding bill.

NASA has picked three companies to develop concepts for lunar rovers that could be provided as a service for Artemis lunar missions and scientific tasks.

The White House has requested NASA to create a new time zone for the moon. Arati Prabhakar, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), stated in a letter on Tuesday that the office wants NASA to establish a unified standard time for the moon and “celestial bodies other than Earth”…

China continues to add new members to its International Lunar Research Station initiative, but many of these are subnational, suggesting issues attracting partners.