Artist's illustration of Moon Express' MX-1 lunar lander headed to the moon. (Image credit: Moon Express) Page 1 of 2: Page 1 The Google Lunar X Prize Peter Jones Dela Cruz The Google Lunar X Prize is an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it ...
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander deploys from the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on Feb. 15, 2024. (Image credit: NASA TV) Odysseus, which is about the size of an English telephone booth, will reach the moon six days from now, if all goes according to plan. It will fir...
A U.S. company's lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology says its lander is now headed back from the vicinity of the moon.
on Dec 11 as Orion splashed down, now on 1-month cruise to next TCM targeting April landing; Landers Nova-C and Peregrine launching NET Q1, SLIM April, Chandrayaan-3 June, Luna-25 July, while Chang’E-3 lander / LUT, Chang’E-4 Yutu-2 rover continue only current operations on Moon...
ascender orbiter and return capsule to reach Moon orbit by 8 May, where they will remain for ~20 days before lander and ascender separate and descend to 490-km Apollo crater (itself within 2,400-km Aitken Basin) spending 48 hours drilling to a depth of 2-m and retrieving up to 2-kg ...
NASA has a plan to put humans back on the surface of the moon, and that plan officially includes SpaceX now. The space agencyannounced Fridaythat it awarded the private rocket company a $2.89 billion contract to develop a "commercial human lander" with the goal of putting two people on th...
previously. Early in January, Japan's SLIM moon lander, took a tumble as it touched down on the lunar surface. This was described as a "success" by the Japanese space agency JAXA, even though the lander's solar panels were not angled properly to harness sunlight and power up the probe....
The lander unfurled what the space administration called the first free-standing Chinese flag on the moon.
In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4—the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon—landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang'E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the gu
It’s not hard to imagine a lander or even a surface rover of one country passing too close to another country’s spacecraft and causing significant damage. A need for rules As efforts to return to the Moon began ramping up in the 2000s, NASA was so concerned by the destructiv...