At 1:11 A.M. EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by the Texas-based ... less than three years after starting its work—a team led by engineer Ryan Cole finished qualifying the ...

NCU's Deep Space Radiation Probe (DSRP) was aboard the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander developed by Japanese space ...

Editor’s note as of 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13: Scrub! SpaceX crews have stood down from a late-night attempt at 12:57 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on the Intuitive ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 — One rocket, two missions: Lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies ... Until recently, soft landings on the Moon were achieved only by a handful of well-funded national ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s, the firm said ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Firefly's team plans to operate the 10 NASA instruments for a complete lunar day, equivalent to about 14 Earth days. The instruments the lander carries are for things like lunar subsurface ...