Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.
Given a low sun angle and the orientation of the lander's solar cells, the spacecraft's battery quickly drained, bringing the mission ... Sunday in a different region of the moon with much more ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, ...
Jones handed Rockwell a script for "Moon" nine months later and it's easy to see why the actor signed up. He would go on to win an Oscar for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" in 2017, but ...
The Intuitive Machines Athena lander mission to the moon has officially been declared "dead" after landing on its side in a ...
It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...
“Two Texas companies flying landers to the moon that theoretically will be on the surface at the same time operating different missions on the moon — that’s just incredible for the United ...
In some way, the second moon mission was not that much different. The lander landed 250 meters away from its intended landing spot. That is something that most people probably can live with.
Of the four CLPS missions attempted so far, only one lander managed an upright touchdown, two landed sideways, and one failed to reach the Moon altogether.