Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...
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Companies start landing on the moon as space agencies foot the bill
On the Artemis program’s only SLS flight to date ... this is Ispace’s second attempt at a lunar landing — it lost contact with its lander in a 2023 mission shortly before a presumed crash ...
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Moon lander from Intuitive Machines touches down, but apparently tips over
A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side.
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
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Athena spacecraft is 2nd lander to reach moon in a week, but location, condition unclear
For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ...
Intuitive Machines Lander Reaches Lunar Surface but May Be on Its Side
Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...
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Athena lunar lander makes it to the moon — but its condition remains unknown
A lunar lander made its touchdown on the moon earlier on Thursday, but controllers on the ground were unable to confirm the Athena lander’s condition upon landing, the Associated Press ...