NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
Astrobotic secures new lunar payload after NASA nixed rover last year
Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...
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Animation Of Japan's SLIM Lunar Lander To Moon
JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
Blue Origin’s latest rocket flight included a lunar-like experience
In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science payloads.
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European PULSAR project looks to lunar missions
The European PULSAR research project, conducted between 2022 and 2024, has disclosed the conceptual design for a plutonium-238 (Pu-238)-fuelled ...
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The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Headed to the Moon: Here's What to Know
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 ...
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...
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2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...
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SpaceX Launches Two Private Moon Landers on Historic Lunar Missions
This lightweight rover will collect and analyze lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA. Additionally, the lander is transporting Moonhouse, a small red-and-white model house by Swedish ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9’s cargo includes a bizarre mini model home headed to the moon: ‘There’s nothing like that in space’
STOCKHOLM — A Swedish artist is about to have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled: A little red model house he created ... to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese ...