Spacecraft beams back stunning moon video before ambitious landing
The 6.6-foot-tall lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of instruments and experiments for the space agency as NASA prepares to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This includes radiation-tolerant computing tests and sampling of the lunar regolith.
Focus: Moon, planetary research, spaceflight With a fully automated, picture-perfect landing, the Blue Ghost mission touched down on the morning of 2 March 2025 Central European Time (CET) in ...
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...
Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.
The Athena lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface Thursday, but not where intended, and is no longer in operation.
A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.
Intuitive Machine's lander toppled over inside a crater on the Moon's south pole after making its landing attempt this week.
HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines’ Athena Nova-C lander touched down at Mons Mouton in the south pole region of the Moon on March 6, ...
Athena has landed on the moon, but the overall status of the spacecraft remains unclear. The mission’s plans include studies ...
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