Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

A second commercially-built moon lander ... the attitude of the vehicle is. We're collecting photos now and downlinking those, and we're going to get a picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance ...

Athena’s target landing site is located closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has ... aboard the lander can move forward and complete their test objectives.

The mission came a year after the company’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to reach ... to and from the lunar surface, exploded during a test flight Thursday evening.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

Austin-based Firefly Aerospace recently became the second private company in little more than a year to put a lander ... vehicles through a battery of tests before they tackle the hardest test ...

The lander is expected to operate for 10 days before lunar nightfall plunges it into ... The four-wheel, 22-pound (10-kilogram) vehicle will test new cellular communications equipment, work ...