The Earth eclipses the moon in this time-lapsed view from Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander. Credit: Firefly Aerospace ...

If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

Blue Ghost mission controllers came up with a clever "beat the heat" idea during lunar operations. When the lander was going ...

Commercial company ispace announced its lunar lander had entered orbit around the moon ahead of a June landing attempt.

The market for sending spacecraft to the moon would seem to be a competitive one. NASA continues to drive the most demand for ...

Built as a solar-powered lander about 2 m tall and 3.5 m wide, Blue Ghost was designed for a mission duration of one lunar day (~14 Earth days). By leveraging CLPS, NASA rapidly deployed LuGRE and ...

A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX 's Starlink 6-93 mission Tuesday night (May 6) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

But it was a risk that Firefly planned for, mitigated and avoided. Blue Ghost’s mission lasted about 14 earth days, which is one full day on the moon. “We had expected to operate through the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites soaring into low-Earth orbit on Tuesday night from ...

Blue Ghost carried instruments for 10 NASA-based ... ago Spacecraft launched by Soviet Union in 1972 is falling back to Earth May 2 (UPI) -- A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 ...

Following stage separation, the rocket's first-stage booster landed on the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the Instructions out ...