However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

Through the agency's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, commercial provider Firefly's Blue Ghost lander will head ... will probe the interior of the moon to depths of up to ...

Most of the Apollo missions landed in the region of ... The LMS instrument — manifested on the Blue Ghost lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace and targeted to launch on January 15 ...

A Texas-built lander named Blue Ghost marks another test of NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative ...

NGLR will also collect data relevant to the moon's interior and theories ... to help understand how a larger lander might affect the lunar surface. "[Apollo 12] landed about 150 meters (500 ...

What's the mission? The CLPS mission will take the Blue Ghost lander, which resembles a smaller version of the Apollo lunar descent module, to the lunar surface. Type of craft: Lander.

its first lunar program since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972. To pave the way for humanity's lunar return, uncrewed lander's have embarked on moon missions to study Earth's nearest ...

The U.S. lander ... into the lunar night." Toward the end of the mission, the company hopes to capture a phenomenon first seen by NASA's Surveyor moon landers and at least two Apollo crews ...