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 ...
Firefly Aerospace successfully concluded its first moon mission earlier this week, but not before its Blue Ghost lander ...
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 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 ...
Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander approached its final landing spot on the Moon early Thursday morning. It was meant to touch down autonomously near Mons Mouton, a ...