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Japan's Resilience moon lander views Earth's most remote region from orbit (photo)
While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...
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NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head...
Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...
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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander snaps its 1st photos of the moon (images)
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...
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Lunar Lander Dynamics And Landing Gear Systems
Another important aspect of lunar lander systems is the design of landing ... of vertical take-off vertical landing (VTVL) concepts. This project investigates retro propulsion technologies for ...
Intuitive Machines Secures NASA Contract For Lunar Mobility Solutions
Shares of Intuitive Machines surged after NASA awarded the company a $2.5 million study contract to improve lunar logistics ...
Why LUNR Is Climbing Today
Calling the deal a "study contract," Intuitive Machines reported that it will seek "to advance lunar logistics handling and ...
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We’re going back to the moon: Everything to know about NASA’s latest lunar lander mission
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...
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Firefly’s Lunar Lander Captures Haunting Earth Eclipse From Space
The lander is packed with 10 scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and gather data to support future human missions to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...
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A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month. Dubbed Blue Ghost, the spacecraft beamed back photos ...
Intuitive Machines delivers second lunar mission lander to Florida
Intuitive Machines (LUNR) announced that it has delivered its IM-2 mission lunar lander, named Athena, to Cape Canaveral, Florida following a ...
Houston-based Intuitive Machines awarded $2.5 million NASA contract to develop Moon-to-Mars tech
NASA awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines a $2.5 million contract, which the company said it would use to help develop a ...
Intuitive Machines Awarded Contract to Advance Lunar Logistics, Cargo, and Mobility Solutions
The NextSTEP Appendix R study contract is intended to advance learning in managing everyday challenges in the lunar environment identified by NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture. “Intuitive Machines has ...