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The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon. See footage of the descent and landing here. Credit: ...
A Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander was on display on the lake terrace at The Broadmoor during the Space Symposium this week. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on Jan. 15 and ...
Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct ...
Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...
Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.
The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is changing the game for lunar imaging alongside Firefly Aerospace with their new commercial Ocula lunar imaging service.
Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...
A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...
The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication ... It shared a SpaceX ride with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, which reached the Moon faster and ...
A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...
Japan on Friday aborted its mission to achieve its first soft landing on the Moon after losing contact with its spacecraft, dashing Tokyo-based firm ispace's chances of becoming the third private ...