While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...
Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s, the firm said ...
The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.
Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage and animation courtesy: Roscosmos | edited by Steve Spaleta ...
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...
Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...
NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...