Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
Mission planners had prepared the lander to perform course-correction burns after reaching the moon, but Athena's lunar orbit insertion ... will test the reflection of lasers as a means of ...
We're collecting photos now and downlinking ... deploy the hopper and the rovers, but that will depend on the lander's orientation. Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's arrival ...
As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments ... sent Firefly’s Blue Ghost on its way. But it is taking a longer, more fuel-efficient path to the moon. It will enter orbit around the ...
He said that Intuitive Machines will decipher Athena's exact precision by going through the photos transmitted ... a class of lunar landers known as Nova-C, entered the moon's orbit Monday just ...
As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments ... sent Firefly’s Blue Ghost on its way. But it is taking a longer, more fuel-efficient path to the moon. It will enter orbit around the ...
said laser altimeters were providing some “noisy” data during testing in lunar orbit. “It just remained noisy all the way until touchdown,” Crain said. “That’s where we’re going to ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...