Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon as January, also on a Falcon 9. The mission is optimized for the lunar south ...

Firefly is making its first attempt to put a vehicle on the moon, but this mission marks a second try for Ispace, after its first lander crashed and blasted a divot in the lunar surface in 2023.

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander next to a figure of the war goddess Athena from Homer's "Iliad," from which its name is derived. While Athena is the second of four landers Intuitive ...

SpaceX launched Firefly’s lunar lander. The lander will take 45 days to reach the moon. It will land near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, on the northeast quadrant of the ...

Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander is on its way to the moon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar ... lander began leaking a critical amount of fuel. Firefly is one of several American companies contracted by NASA for lunar missions in the next ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A lunar lander ... to the Earth for the next step of its mission. "Blue Ghost" was launched to the moon on a SpaceX rocket earlier this month. The lander is part of a NASA ...

TWO lunar landers are scheduled for launch next week, as scientists gather the data necessary to set up human habitation on the Moon. The Blue Ghost lunar lander from private US firm Firefly ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is flying annual missions to the Moon with payload services customized to the technology and exploration goals of each customer. Offering rideshare opportunities and ...