A Pittsburgh company is gearing up for another try at a moon landing. North Side-based Astrobotic says its Griffin lander ...
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science payloads.
On its way to the moon, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has taken its first space pictures as it orbits Earth.
The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...
2025 is set to be an amazing year of space missions as many moon landings are planned and significant test launches.
The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched a ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a 1:11 a.m. EST launch ... off its own moon landing attempt in January 2024 when its Peregrine lander began ...
Similar to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology, which developed the Peregrine lunar lander that met a fiery ... respectively, after launch. Both spacecraft are healthy and operating as expected ...
At 1:11 a.m. Wednesday morning, the sky over Cape Canaveral lit up as a SpaceX Falcon 9 leaped off the launch pad which sent NASA astronauts to the moon ... lander is named Blue Ghost after ...