Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

not Lunar Outpost of Golden ... Soon after launch, its Peregrine lander suffered a major malfunction with its propulsion system, and it was not able to get close to the moon.

In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed that Athena had tipped onto its side — the same fate that befell its first lunar lander ... system of its Peregrine spacecraft ...

Besides last year’s IM-1 lander, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander launched in January 2024 but suffered a propulsion failure that kept it from attempting a landing. Firefly Aerospace’s ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days ...

The lander’s first shot was taken from its top deck, and also includes portions of the X-band antenna (left), Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (center), and Lunar Magnetotelluric ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot ... The fourth, Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft, suffered a failure during launch early last year, causing ...

The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.