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 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Japan-based space startup ispace, Inc.’s Resilience lunar lander was launched on a journey toward the moon from the Kennedy Space Center at 1:10 a.m. on Wednesday. It separated ...

The mission, which lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost-1 and ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2, both aiming to deliver scientific payloads to the ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from US space firm ... They will not survive the frigid lunar nighttime where temperatures can plunge to roughly minus 128 degrees Celsius.

Unlike Blue Ghost, ispace's Resilience ... test whether Earth-orbiting navigation satellites can be used near the moon and the effectiveness of computer radiation shielding, among other topics ...

It's Take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into ... "We've done everything we can on the design and the engineering," Kim said. Even so, he pinned an Irish shamrock to ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Japan's iSpace will be fervently hoping they too can stick the landing – on the Moon's surface – with their respective craft. Firefly Aerospace confirmed it had ...

It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into ... “We’ve done everything we can on the design and the engineering,” Kim said. Even so, he pinned an Irish shamrock ...

That was fitting considering onboard this SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket were two lunar landers − ispace's lightweight lander ... looks at just what the lander can handle in terms of impact and touching ...

Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early ... s position that while no nation on Earth can claim sovereignty of the moon or other parts of the solar ...

Image: SpaceX Update: Wednesday, January 15, 9:10 a.m. ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander and ispace’s ... on Wednesday. You can also tune in ...