SpaceX Elon Musk is adamant that the space company will eventually make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent ...
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the ...
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander photographed the Earth ... Mare Crisium crater was to deliver 10 NASA instruments designed to gather lunar subsurface data. But the eastern edge of the ...
the Blue Ghost team planned to operate NASA instruments to measure changes in the lunar environment as Earth blocks the Sun’s light. The lander is set to operate on the lunar surface through ...
The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...
The NASA payload on the Athena lander includes NASA's PRIME-1 drill suite and a mass spectrometer capable of analyzing the lunar soil. It also includes a small Mobile Autonomous Prospecting ...
While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early Friday ... moon’s surface only one other time. In 1967, NASA’s Surveyor 3 lander, which had been sent to gather data in ...