The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

“This unique landing site will allow our payload partners to gather critical data about the Moon’s regolith (rock and dust rubble), geophysical characteristics, and the interaction of solar ...

The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space ...

The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched two lunar landers, Blue Ghost and Resilience, marking a new chapter in moon exploration ...

Launch of Firefly Aerospace’s moon lander Watch live coverage of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander as it lifts off ...

The spacecraft will then orbit the Moon for another 16 days, before preparing for landing on Mare Crisium, or the Sea of Crises - the site of an ancient asteroid impact. If it survives the journey ...

SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January The Resilience lander will fly a much slower trajectory to the moon, with landing targeted for four to five months after launch. The second mission ...

Blum, an Israeli-American who first visited Japan in 2015, returned to the country in 2018 for a PhD during which he researched lunar rovers and their ability to navigate bumpy and uneven terrain.

SpaceX successfully deployed two lunar landers in space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket after launch from NASA's Kennedy Space ...