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.

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

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.

SpaceX launched Japan's ispace Resilience and the US-based Firefly Blue Ghost as part of the global effort to explore the ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's ...

Carrying 10 NASA payloads, Blue Ghost's 60-day-long mission will target a landing ... for Japanese space exploration firm ispace. That mission will take a low-energy path to the moon, with a ...

It builds on the success of Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission, which landed on the Moon using a precise landing technique ... mission’s first target is the near ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's first ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan’s ispace and the other from US ... saying, “A moon landing is not a dream but it has become a reality … and a success would be a huge, huge step forward ...