While in orbit, Intuitive Machine's Nova-C lunar lander named Athena captured these views of its future landing spot, Mons Mouton, on the Moon's south pole.
Credit: Firefly Aeronautics/Cover Images The first ever lunar landing made by a commercial company has been achieved by Firefly Aerospace. Their Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touched down on ...
Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a "fully successful" soft landing. Houston-based Intuitive Machines' Odysseus ...
FILE - A flock of birds fly in front of the full moon over the city centre in Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on ...
“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. An upright and stable landing makes Firefly — a startup founded a decade ago — the first ...
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the US back on the moon for the ...
Firefly Aerospace scores lunar touchdown with Blue Ghost lander Moon landing marks company's first, second for a private firm Firefly one of many companies in modern moon race led by US ...
Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a Moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a “fully successful” soft landing. Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus ...
“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. An upright and stable landing makes Firefly — a startup founded a decade ...
Ray Allensworth, @Firefly_Space Spacecraft Program Director, explains why it would not have been a practical use of resources to stream live from the spacecraft during Blue Ghost's Moon landing.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is set to attempt a landing on the Moon's “unexplored surface” at around 3.34 am ET (12.20 pm IST) on Sunday, targeting a site near Mons Latreille ...
“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. An upright and stable landing makes Firefly — a startup founded a decade ...