Last year was not a good one for a lunar lander company based in Pittsburgh named Astrobotic. In January, the company's first spacecraft finally launched after years of delays, carrying dozens of ...

The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit ...

Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover will be the main payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, slated to land in the Nobile region near the south pole of the moon.

The Blue Ghost Lander represents a significant milestone in private sector participation in space exploration, particularly lunar missions. It will: Investigate heat flow from the lunar interior.

It does, however, pursue its own agenda as well, and back in 2022 Europe decided its time to work on its own (and first) lunar lander. Keeping up with the naming tradition of space missions and ...

Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...

It will fly as a "rideshare" along with the primary payload — the Athena lunar lander, built by Houston company Intuitive Machines. Here within a Lockheed Martin clean room, where it underwent ...

SEE ALSO: Private moon spacecraft just took a breathtaking snapshot of Earth Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures Earth on the horizon from its top deck, with the moon in the ...

AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND US HERE ON THE GRAPHIC RIGHT IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART WILL CELEBRATE THE START OF THAT LUNAR NEW YEAR WITH ITS ANNUAL LUNAR NEW YEAR COMMUNITY DAY THIS ...

Team Draper’s lunar lander will aim to land in the Schrödinger Basin in 2026 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which is part of the Artemis program. The robotic ...