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US Spaceship Lands On Moon, Second Private Lander To Achieve Milestone
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down near Mons Latreille, a volcanic formation in Mare Crisium on the Moon's northeastern near side.
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US Spaceship Hours Away From Daring Moon Landing Attempt
Nicknamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing and is part of a NASA partnership with industry to cut costs and support Artemis.
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2 Moon Landings Scheduled Within A Week For NASA's Private Fleet
More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface when the first-ever private lander touched down last February.
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US Firm Aims For Second Moon Landing Attempt
Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private entity to put a robot on the Moon, though the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side -- something it hopes to avoid this time around.
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NASA Launches Satellite On Mission To Detect Water On The Moon
Lunar Trailblazer, which weighs about 440 pounds (200 kg) and measures about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide when its solar panels are fully deployed, is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface.
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NASA’s IM-2 Mission Brings Ice Mining, Mobile Robots, and More on Moon
NASA is launching IM-2, the second lunar mission under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The Nova-C lander, built by Intuitive Machines, will carry groundbreaking technologies, including an ice-mining drill, a mobile hopping drone, and a lunar 4G network. These innovations will help scienti...
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Private US Company Set For "Challenging" Second Moon Landing Mission
Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private company to put a robot on the Moon, although the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side.
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Moon Or Mars? NASA's Future At A Crossroads Under Trump 2.0
Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket.
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Blue Ghost Lander Lowers Orbit, Prepares for Lunar Touchdown on March 2
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander has successfully lowered its orbit to 120 km in preparation for a lunar touchdown on March 2. The spacecraft, which launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Mission teams are monitoring its orbit and finalizing descent plans, though commun...
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Set for Historic Moon Landing on March 2, 2025
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander will make its descent to the Moon on March 2, 2025, near Mare Crisium. This mission, supported by NASA’s CLPS initiative, will carry key scientific payloads to test new technologies for future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. It aims to collect critical lunar surface data and demonstrate advancemen...
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ISRO's Chandrayaan-4 to Land on Moon and Bring Back Lunar Samples in 2027
India’s space agency ISRO is gearing up for the Chandrayaan-4 mission, scheduled for 2027. This ambitious mission will involve a complex system of five modules, launched using two LVM3 rockets. Once in lunar orbit, two modules will descend to the surface, with one collecting samples and the other remaining on the Moon. The sample return module wi...
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NASA's SLS Block 1B Brings Enhanced Payload Capacity for Artemis IV
NASA’s Artemis IV mission will deploy the SLS Block 1B, featuring an upgraded upper stage and an adaptive payload adapter designed using structured light scanning. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center have tested the adapter to handle three times the expected load. The structured light technique reduces manufacturing costs and allows rapid d...
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China Names Its Moon Spacesuit and Rover Ahead of Lunar Mission
China has named its lunar spacesuit "Wangyu" and rover "Tansuo," crucial for its human moon landing plans by 2030. The prototype development phase is in progress, with extensive testing conducted. Additional mission components, including the "Mengzhou" spacecraft and "Lanyue" lunar lander, have also been named. The construction of essential infrast...
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NASA’s PRIME-1 Mission to Study Lunar Ice and Advance Moon Exploration
NASA’s PRIME-1 mission, set to launch on Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander, will explore lunar ice and subsurface materials at Mons Mouton near the Moon’s South Pole. The mission features the TRIDENT drill, which will extract soil samples up to one meter deep, and the MSOLO spectrometer, which will analyze gases released from these samples to...
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UCLA Unveils SPLITTER, a Tethered Jumping Robot for Space Exploration
Researchers at UCLA’s RoMeLa lab have developed SPLITTER, a robotic system designed for planetary exploration through tethered jumping. The system consists of two quadrupedal robots connected by a tether, allowing efficient movement in low-gravity environments like the Moon and asteroids. Unlike traditional rovers, SPLITTER’s design enables sta...
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US Spaceship Lands On Moon, Second Private Lander To Achieve Milestone
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down near Mons Latreille, a volcanic formation in Mare Crisium on the Moon's northeastern near side.
-
US Spaceship Hours Away From Daring Moon Landing Attempt
Nicknamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing and is part of a NASA partnership with industry to cut costs and support Artemis.
-
2 Moon Landings Scheduled Within A Week For NASA's Private Fleet
More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface when the first-ever private lander touched down last February.
-
US Firm Aims For Second Moon Landing Attempt
Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private entity to put a robot on the Moon, though the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side -- something it hopes to avoid this time around.
-
NASA Launches Satellite On Mission To Detect Water On The Moon
Lunar Trailblazer, which weighs about 440 pounds (200 kg) and measures about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide when its solar panels are fully deployed, is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface.
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NASA’s IM-2 Mission Brings Ice Mining, Mobile Robots, and More on Moon
NASA is launching IM-2, the second lunar mission under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The Nova-C lander, built by Intuitive Machines, will carry groundbreaking technologies, including an ice-mining drill, a mobile hopping drone, and a lunar 4G network. These innovations will help scienti...
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Private US Company Set For "Challenging" Second Moon Landing Mission
Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private company to put a robot on the Moon, although the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side.
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Moon Or Mars? NASA's Future At A Crossroads Under Trump 2.0
Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket.
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Blue Ghost Lander Lowers Orbit, Prepares for Lunar Touchdown on March 2
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander has successfully lowered its orbit to 120 km in preparation for a lunar touchdown on March 2. The spacecraft, which launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Mission teams are monitoring its orbit and finalizing descent plans, though commun...
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Set for Historic Moon Landing on March 2, 2025
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander will make its descent to the Moon on March 2, 2025, near Mare Crisium. This mission, supported by NASA’s CLPS initiative, will carry key scientific payloads to test new technologies for future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. It aims to collect critical lunar surface data and demonstrate advancemen...
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ISRO's Chandrayaan-4 to Land on Moon and Bring Back Lunar Samples in 2027
India’s space agency ISRO is gearing up for the Chandrayaan-4 mission, scheduled for 2027. This ambitious mission will involve a complex system of five modules, launched using two LVM3 rockets. Once in lunar orbit, two modules will descend to the surface, with one collecting samples and the other remaining on the Moon. The sample return module wi...
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NASA's SLS Block 1B Brings Enhanced Payload Capacity for Artemis IV
NASA’s Artemis IV mission will deploy the SLS Block 1B, featuring an upgraded upper stage and an adaptive payload adapter designed using structured light scanning. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center have tested the adapter to handle three times the expected load. The structured light technique reduces manufacturing costs and allows rapid d...
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China Names Its Moon Spacesuit and Rover Ahead of Lunar Mission
China has named its lunar spacesuit "Wangyu" and rover "Tansuo," crucial for its human moon landing plans by 2030. The prototype development phase is in progress, with extensive testing conducted. Additional mission components, including the "Mengzhou" spacecraft and "Lanyue" lunar lander, have also been named. The construction of essential infrast...
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NASA’s PRIME-1 Mission to Study Lunar Ice and Advance Moon Exploration
NASA’s PRIME-1 mission, set to launch on Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander, will explore lunar ice and subsurface materials at Mons Mouton near the Moon’s South Pole. The mission features the TRIDENT drill, which will extract soil samples up to one meter deep, and the MSOLO spectrometer, which will analyze gases released from these samples to...
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UCLA Unveils SPLITTER, a Tethered Jumping Robot for Space Exploration
Researchers at UCLA’s RoMeLa lab have developed SPLITTER, a robotic system designed for planetary exploration through tethered jumping. The system consists of two quadrupedal robots connected by a tether, allowing efficient movement in low-gravity environments like the Moon and asteroids. Unlike traditional rovers, SPLITTER’s design enables sta...
