Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has been orbiting ... the $2.6 billion program has contracted with several U.S. space companies to deliver science and technology payloads to various ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander ... aboard as part of the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. CLPS is part of NASA’s broader Artemis program, which aims to ...

The lunar lander traveled through space in SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. It landed on its side in a crater 820 feet away from the intended landing site and is no longer functioning. Intuitive Machines ...

"After landing, mission controllers were able to accelerate several program and payload milestones, including NASA’s PRIME-1 suite, before the lander’s batteries depleted," Intuitive Machines ...

A secretive Space Force ship has returned to earth after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The Boeing-made X-37B vessel was quietly launched by SpaceX in 2023 from NASA’s ...

Once Athena landed, mission controllers accelerated several program and payload milestones, including NASA's PRIME-1 suite, before the lander's batteries drained. It is unclear if NASA's PRIME-1 ...

Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice.

which has its first physical data centre on the lander for its space-based data backup business. After launching atop a SpaceX rocket on Feb 26 from Florida, Athena flew a winding path to the moon ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on ... part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, an effort by the space agency to use private companies to send landers ...

The Japanese Resilience lander is taking a longer, low-energy route to the moon and is expected to land in June. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984 ...

INTUITIVE MACHINES IS SET TO LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ... NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program. Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern latitudes ...

Earlier in the week, another Texas company scored a successful landing under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program. Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern ...