However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

then maybe we can go and make changes to the lander design to help minimize it." Maddock said. Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images ...

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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft is set to launch on February 26, embarking on a mission to detect water hidden in lunar ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

Recently, ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut. Thales has secured a nearly $900 million contract from the ESA to develop the ...

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which ...