Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has been orbiting the moon since mid-February and now is in the final stages of its journey to the Mare Crisium, a large basin on near-side of the moon.
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, Athena, has landed awkwardly. The mission, aimed at reaching the Moon’s south pole, faced a tense delay before confirming touchdown. The Houston-based ...
That situation and I'd like to get *** picture. As they say, picture didn't happen. A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and ...
aiming to bring its Athena spacecraft down in the Mons Mouton region near the moon’s south pole. The lander did touch down 250 meters from its intended site, marking the most southerly landing ...
The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may ...
The Japanese moon lander SLIM, short for Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, experienced a similar outcome. "Why did we end up at a 30 degree angle? We know exactly why we did," Trent Martin ...