Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.
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Private company rockets toward the moon in the latest rush of lunar landing attemptsNever before have so many spacecraft angled for the moon’s surface all at once. Last month, U.S. and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth's sidekick.
Intuitive Machines out of Texas is sending a second lunar lander, this time Athena, to the moon, where it will drill for water, ice and other gases.
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.
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Space on MSNFarewell, Blue Ghost! Private moon lander goes dark to end record-breaking commercial lunar mission"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.
The spacecraft will travel for about a week before landing near the moon’s south pole. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:17 p.m ...
Known as Athena, this Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander is poised to launch to the moon no earlier than 7:02 p.m. Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. The lander will launch atop a SpaceX ...
transcript Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water.
Analysis-Cutting Moon Rocket Would Test Musk's Power to Slash Jobs in Republican States By Joey Roulette and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is being urged to axe an over ...
The lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. If all goes well, Intuitive Machines 2 (IM-2) would land on the moon around March 6 in area known as Mons Mouton. On its way to the moon ...
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