The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure the best access to its resources.

Intuitive Machines, which became the first private company to land on the moon in February of 2024, is planning its second landing. This time, they will bring something new: a 4G LTE wireless network.

ICY MOON: Mapping the floor of the Moon’s Shackleton Crater in what NASA describes as unprecedented detail, agency scientists and university researchers have calculated that unusually bright laser ...

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