Peregrine could also be the first private mission ever to touch down on the moon. Astrobotic is locked in a bit of a modern moon race. Another company, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, is also launching a miss
Blue Ghost launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15 along with another private lunar lander — Resilience, which is built and operated by Tokyo-based company ispace. The Firefly probe hit all its marks on the way to the moon. For example, it entered lunar or...
The first big event for the sector this year came on 22 February, when Texas-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a feat previously only accomplished by national space agencies. Despite the lander ...
EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, rode its own fiery steed through the heavens, launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to become just the second U.S. soft landing on the moon since the end of the Apollo ...
Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy sent two satellites into orbit with its Ceres-1 (Y6) rocket on Saturday. The rocket lifted off at 1:07 p.m. Beijing Time from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The launch by the Chinese
Lighting up the deep overnight sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander on a flight to the moon. If successful, it will become the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years. It was ...
The Feds Could Be Trouble for Private Rocket LaunchesSarah Zhang
Despite the tumble, the Intuitive Machines lander put the US back on the moon for the first time since Nasa astronauts closed the Apollo programme in 1972. A third lander from the Japanese company ispace is still three months from landing. It shared a rocket ride with Blue Gho...
This is because that lander, called Nova-C, is set to take a more direct path to the moon. It plans to launch next month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Nova-C was built by Texas-based space company Intuitive Machines. The company also plans to send the lander to the moon for another...
On February 6, Space X, a private US aerospace company owned by Elon Musk, has successfully launched its new Falcon Heavy spacecraft, making it the world’s most powerful rocket. Falcon Heavy is the largest rocket since the retirement of NASA’s Saturn V, which was used for the Moon miss...