A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe landed there to collect samples in August 1976. But SpaceX is prepping a ...
At 1:11 A.M. EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, rode its own fiery steed through the heavens, launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
Japanese space exploration company ispace is all set to launch its second lunar lander early Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), but what will the spacecraft carry with it to the moon? The ispace ...
NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, soaring through space with a tiny lunar rover called Tenacious. "After all the testing conducted and mission simulations completed ...
Intuitive Machines Inc. LUNR recently revealed that it has successfully integrated Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communication System into the IM-2 mission lander, named Athena. Following this ...
Only five countries have successfully placed spacecraft on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union ... lunar surface, ispace’s 11-pound (5-kilogram) rover will stay near the lander ...
In a groundbreaking launch early on Wednesday, SpaceX sent two lunar landers on separate missions ... Since the 1960s, only five countries—the U.S., Soviet Union, China, India, and Japan ...
The lunar lander will spend 25 days in orbit around the Earth and is scheduled to land on the moon March 2. Blue Ghost One is now orbiting Earth. Launching at 1:11 a.m. EST on Jan. 15, a SpaceX ...