More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit. "Blue Ghost successfully performed a Trans Lunar Injection burn to ...
The spacecraft will separate from the rocket after reaching what’s called a trans-lunar injection orbit, which is an elliptical path that extends about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers ...
the trans lunar injection, meant to allow it to escape Earth's gravitational pull and send it on a short transit to the moon's orbit. Following that initial maneuver, the Blue Ghost captured two ...
The spacecraft will separate from the rocket after reaching what’s called a trans-lunar injection orbit, which is an elliptical path that extends about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers ...