Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in ...

Space exploration in 2025 will see remarkable missions from global agencies like NASA, ESA, China, and Japan. Key initiatives include lunar landings ... on Jupiter's moon Europa, promising new ...

similar to the Japanese space agency's SLIM which succeeded in the country's first lunar landing last year. Firefly's Blue Ghost aims to reach the moon 45 days after launch, around March 2.

Handout/ ispace, inc./AFP On the Japanese side, Tokyo-based ispace's first attempt to land on the Moon ended in an unsalvageable "hard landing" in April 2023. "It's important to challenge ...

SpaceX launched Japan’s ispace Resilience and the US-based Firefly Blue Ghost as part of the global effort to explore the moon. Resilience seeks a second lunar landing attempt after a prior setback, ...

Japan’s attempts to become ... These other two are still en route to the Moon. Sadly, the OMOTENASHI lander was the only one planned for a controlled landing. A shot of the lunar surface.

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission ... Florida. Landing site: Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) region in the north of the moon. Target landing date: May or June. Objectives ...

Japan's Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched ...