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NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy seems to have drawn the ire of Elon Musk. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, took to social media on…
The surface of the moon as captured from orbit prior to the crash ISPACE SMBC X Hakuto-R Venture Moon On June 5th at 7:13 PM, a…
NASA took a chance some years back that commercial companies could conduct scientific experiments on the moon at a lower cost than institutions. Unfortunately, last year,…
IM-2 missions in low lunar orbits An intuitive machine The intuitive machine Athena Lander has reached the moon, but appears to have fallen. The Lander is…
Scheduled to appear in space this week, the Robot Moonlander is set to mark the second moon mission of a company that made history last year…
Artist's impression of the moon's Athena spaceshipNASA This week, a private space mission was launched on the moon, aiming to reach the southernmost point we've ever…
The SLIM lander continues to take photos of the moon's surface.JAXA Somehow, Japan's Smart Lunar Survey Lander (SLIM) survived three lunar nights. This is an amazing…
View of the lunar surface taken from the tilted position of the SLIM lander JAXA Most landers we send to the Moon will operate for one…
A privately built spacecraft on the moon has sent back new photos from the lunar surface. The images captured the spacecraft’s much-lauded descent and the moment…
The lunar lander, known as Odysseus, is in good condition but resting on its side a day after making history as the first civilian spacecraft to…
A Houston-based company’s planned launch of a spacecraft to the moon, aimed at becoming the first commercially built spacecraft to land on the moon, has been…
Houston-based company successfully launched a private lunar lander into space on its second attempt early Thursday morning. The spacecraft, developed by Intuitive Machines, took off from…
Launch of the Peregrine Lunar Module on a Vulcan rocket on January 8thAPFootage / Alamy Stock Photo The mission of the Hayabusa lander is over. The…
After more than a week in space, the doomed lunar lander met a violent end Thursday as it burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, ending its mission.A…
Artist's thoughts on SLIM after landing on the moon JAXA Japan is preparing for its first moon landing. The Smart Lunar Survey Lander (SLIM) is scheduled…
Peregrine photo showing disturbance of insulation in the foreground astrobotic Things look grim for Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft. The Vulcan rocket launched toward the moon on January…
Astrobotic said the cause of the failure was likely a propulsion failure, adding that a further update would be issued once more data is acquired and…
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket prepares to launch from Cape Canaveral, FloridaUPI / Alamy Stock Photo Credit: Alamy Live The series of missions to the moon…
by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) December 26, 2023 Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) aims to demonstrate pinpoint landing technology and obstacle detection technology to…
intuitive machine The company announced earlier this week that it was working with launch provider SpaceX to postpone its first lunar lander mission to mid-February. The…
based in pittsburgh astroboticULA’s first lunar lander is scheduled to take off on Christmas Eve aboard United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket, ULA CEO Tori…