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 ...
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Two privately-built moon landers share a ride to space atop a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket
The U.S. lander, built by Austin ... followed by 16 days in lunar orbit. If no major problems develop, Blue Ghost, 6.6 feet tall and 11.5 feet wide, then will descend to the surface near the ...
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FireFly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is on its way to the moon: What to know about NASA mission
The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched a ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a 1:11 a.m. EST launch ... its first lunar program since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972.
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Blue Ghost, a Private U.S. Lunar Lander, Launches to the Moon
At 1:11 A.M. EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by the Texas-based ... U.S. soft landing on the moon since the end of the Apollo program. Over the next four weeks, that mission ...
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Two private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo ... Once lowered onto the lunar surface, ispace’s 11-pound (5-kilogram) rover will stay near the lander, traveling up to hundreds of yards ...