A Texas company's privately owned lunar lander was deemed non-functional after landing off-target sideways in a crater close to the Moon's south pole, the firm said on Friday. The mission to drop ...

The first ended in a crash in April 2023 because its ... like the design of the Intuitive Machines’ lunar landers. The company’s first lander, Odysseus, tipped over when it landed while ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The lander, from Texas-based Intuitive ... Intuitive Machines said its latest spacecraft crashed inside a crater 250 meters from its intended landing site. Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission ...

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

The first private lunar lander to complete a successful moon mission ... as the first private company to land on the moon without a crash. It comes after several failed attempts by other firms.

Israel's Beresheet mission and India's Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander both crashed in 2019. "Lunar landers are challenging, not just because the lunar environment is so harsh and exotic ...

Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to ... As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments that measured the lander’s altitude were providing noisy data, which may have contributed ...

And a lander called Beresheet from an Israeli nonprofit called SpaceIL crashed into the moon in 2019. Both Blue Ghost and Athena are part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS ...