On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

Image: SpaceX ... Resilience lander, on the other hand, will follow a much slower route to the Moon. After operating in an elliptical transfer orbit, the lander will conduct a lunar flyby ...

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 ...

SpaceX and NASA are now targeting mid-January for the launch of the private moon lander "Blue Ghost." Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m ...

Blue Ghost’s Moon mission, launched by SpaceX, is set to revolutionize lunar exploration and offer Earth valuable lessons ...

Two private lunar ... lander's location. The spacecraft will preserve the last of its battery power to capture an image of the lunar sunset before powering down. Related: Double moon mission ...

In a groundbreaking launch early on Wednesday, SpaceX sent two ... attempt after its first lander crashed in 2022. The new mission carries a rover designed to collect lunar soil samples and ...

A SpaceX Falcon ... nose cone were the two lunar landers — hailing from two different countries. The first is Blue Ghost, a 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) lunar lander developed by Firefly ...

The lander — Firefly's first-ever mooncraft — will then conduct an engine burn to head toward the moon. Blue Ghost will reach lunar orbit four days later and spend 16 days there before ...