Texas company pulls off first fully successful commercial landing on the moon
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while...
LPV is designed to collect and transfer lunar soil without relying on gravity. While the EDS ... 1 suite of two instruments — a drill and a mass spectrometer. The MAPP rover and its associated ...
Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty
Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...
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Two moon missions touched down on the lunar surface. How they unfolded was a stark contrast
California-based asteroid mining company AstroForge shared on Thursday that its Odin spacecraft, which ventured to space a week and a half ago with Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander ...
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Intuitive Machines is hoping for a moon-landing streak this week
A drill and mass spectrometer, a device that identifies the kinds of elements or particles in a substance, will measure the ...
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‘We’re on the moon’: Firefly Aerospace nails perfect lunar landing
(Courtesy/Firefly Aerospace) The mission control callouts immediately reported sensors were reading “lunar gravity and it is stable” followed by the declaration of success. “They’re just ...
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Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty
The main payload on Athena is a drill for NASA that will extract lunar soil to be sniffed by a mass spectrometer for ... spacecraft has a high center of gravity and is more likely to tip over ...