Team Draper’s lunar lander will aim to land in the Schrödinger Basin in 2026 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which is part of the Artemis program. The robotic ...
Last year was not a good one for a lunar lander company based in Pittsburgh named Astrobotic. In January, the company's first spacecraft finally launched after years of delays, carrying dozens of ...
Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover will be the main payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, slated to land in the Nobile region near the south pole of the moon.
But then in January last year, Astrobotic’s first lunar mission using a smaller lander failed to reach the moon. Then, in July, NASA officials announced that they were canceling the ice-seeking ...
The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent ...
The flight is described as the company's first Lunar-G flight. "By simulating lunar gravity, customers can accelerate their learning and technology readiness for lunar payloads at a much lower ...
Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...
SEE ALSO: Private moon spacecraft just took a breathtaking snapshot of Earth Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures Earth on the horizon from its top deck, with the moon in the ...
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The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which ...