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 ...
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
NASA launched Blue Ghost with a motive to study the moons atmosphere. It is expected to orbit the Earth and moon for 45 days.
China plans to land humans on the moon by 2030. See animations of the crew on the moon with a lander and rover. Credit: China ...
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month. Dubbed Blue Ghost, the spacecraft beamed back photos ...
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...
Recent research has focused on various aspects of lunar lander dynamics, including stability during landing, optimization of landing gear design, and innovative mechanisms for impact absorption.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan. 15 ...