Firefly Aerospace has partnered with Blue Origin's Honeybee Robotics to supply a rover for its third lunar mission in 2028 to study the Gruithuisen Domes, the Texas-based rocket maker said on Monday.
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
An instrument called Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 on the Blue Ghost Moon lander captured the spacecraft's descent ...
The first images of lunar lander engine thruster stirring up moon dust were captured during the successful Blue Ghost descent.
These lunar lander missions are part of NASA’s Commercial ... The camera was supposed to create the first 3D images of its kind of the lunar surface, and Hayne was part of a team that was ...
It's a haunting photo, but at least it has answers: For the second time in as many years, a private Intuitive Machines lunar lander has tipped over on the moon. After a day of uncertainty ...