The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...
Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...
The 2024 Technical.ly Award-winning company, founded to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize, began as a small startup amid the backdrop of an economic downturn and waning lunar ambitions after NASA’s ...
It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully made a soft touchdown near an ancient volcanic feature on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning.
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...
NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin's Blue Moon cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon as early as this summer.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...
The first ended in a crash in April 2023 because its navigating software misjudged the spacecraft’s altitude. In the fall, Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh is planning to try to get to the ...
AI and technology advisory firm HIKE2 has announced the slate of speakers for its annual Innovation Summit, including several ...
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.