Firefly’s Blue Ghost Nears Lunar Touchdown With 10 Game-Changing NASA Instruments
NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith ...
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...
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SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe 'Lunar Trailblazer' on Feb. 26
Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 Conducts First Lunar Gravity Simulation
Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.
Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship
For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...
Astrobotic secures new lunar payload after NASA nixed rover last year
Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...
Thales Alenia Space strikes deal with the Emirates for space station module
Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has clinched an order from the UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre to develop an airlock module for the Lunar Gateway space station, the joint venture between France's ...
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How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
Blue Origin’s latest rocket flight included a lunar-like experience
In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science payloads.
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China plans to send a flying robot to search for water on the moon’s far side
And the search for lunar ice is part of China’s preparations to build a research base at the moon’s south pole, Chinese space experts told state broadcaster CCTV. “There are some very deep ...