Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...

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 ...

Type of craft: Lander and rover. Who's doing it?ispace, a Japanese lunar robotic exploration company. Launched: Jan. 15. Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Launch site ...

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 ...

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

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 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from ... now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business.

The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on ... weeks — a full lunar day — for its scientific and research operations. The solar-powered lander's 10 CLPS payloads ...