A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The ...
NASA awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines a $2.5 million contract, which the company said it would use to help develop a ...
SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...
The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early this morning (Jan. 15 ...
Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early Wednesday after being launched on the same SpaceX rocket. Both are aiming for the lunar surface. transcript 3 ...
SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.
Who's doing it? NASA and ispace, a Japanese lunar robotic exploration company. Launched: Jan. 15. Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Launch site: Launch Complex 39A ...
SpaceX aims to utilize Starship for lunar missions with NASA and eventually for crewed missions to Mars. A new version of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first ...
The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...
Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of two lunar landers atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. NASA's uncrewed payload mission to the moon ...
The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on SpaceX's "Just Read the Instructions ... delivering Blue Ghost to a lunar transfer orbit about 65 minutes after launch ...