The Moon Colonization

Maintained by Jean Schneider - Paris Observatory

jean.schneider@obspm.fr

Update 18 February 2025

• Past and current missions
  Update 18 February 2025
  • 15 January 2025: Blue Ghost  
  • 15 January 2025: Ispace  
  • 03 May 2024:Chang'e 6  
  • 14 February 2024; Odysseus  
  • September 2019: Chandrayaan-2  
• Scheduled missions
  Update 3 February 2025
  • 26 February 2025: IM-2  
• Past Telelescope
  Update 18 February 2025
  
  • Lunar Ultraviolet Telescope  
• Lunar telescopes and detectors projets
  Update 18 February 2025
  
  • LOUPE
  • LUCI  

• Articles
  Update 5 February 2025
  • A 600 m2 array of 6.5 m telescopes at the lunar pole   R. Angel
  • Modes of the Dark Ages 21 cm field accessible to a lunar radio interferometer   Ph. Bull et al. Large-scale array for radio astronomy on the farside (LARAF)   X. Chen et al. Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection   A. Cozzumbo et al.
  • High-energy particle observations from the Moon   I. Dandouras et al.
  • Cosmic mysteries and the hydrogen 21-cm line: bridging the gap with lunar observations   A. Fialkov et al. X-ray astronomy from the lunar surface  P. Gandhi The lunar dust environment: concerns for Moon-based astronomy   M. Horanyi et al. Potential and perils: paths to protecting lunar sites of extraordinary scientific importance (SESIs) for astronomy before it is too late   A. Krolikovski et al.
  • Modelling science return from the lunar crater radio telescope on the far side of the moon   D. Pisanti et al.
  • Astronomy from the Moon: From Exoplanets to Cosmology in Visible Light and Beyond   J. Schneider et al.
  • OWL-MOON: Very high resolution spectro-imaging and Earth-Moon interferometry: exoplanets to cosmology   J. Schneider et al.
  • OWL-Moon in 2050 and Beyond   J. Schneider et al.
  • Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades (part 2)   J. Silk et al.
• Presentations
  update 11 February 2025
  
  • L'Astronomie depuis la Lune  
• Conferences
  Update 6 February 2025
  
  • Lunar Scientific Exploration: Plans and Preparations  
• Space Agencies
  Update 6 February 2025
  • Canadian Space Agency
    Update 6 February 2025
    • Moon Exploration  
  • Chinese National Space Administration
    Update 6 February 2025
    • CNSA Site  
  • ESA Update 28 January 2025
    • ESA Lunar Ideas 2022
• Companies
  Update 6 February 2025
  • Astrobotics  
• Organizations
  Update 6 February 2025
  • International Lunar Observatory Association