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but it will be much longer before they reach the moon. Blue Ghost will orbit Earth for 25 days, before firing its engines to start a four-day journey to the moon, where it will orbit for 16 days. After this, it will autonomously descend and land, in aplain cal...
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On Thursday, February 10 from Starbase in Texas, SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk provided an update on the development of Starship, a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying passengers and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. ...
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rests on the deck of a droneship shortly after launching the Blue Ghost and Resilience moon landers on Jan. 15, 2025. (Image credit: NASA) The rocket's second stage continued onward and upward as planned, delivering Blue Ghost to...
Both SpaceX and Blue Origin were awarded contracts for NASA's Human Landing System, and have been in the process of designing their respective vehicles for returning astronauts to the surface of the moon. Now, NASA has given both companies a heads-up to expect to put those de...
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket Saturday morning, with the booster exploding and spacecraft apparently detonating during the second test flight.
The Starship progress this year is important, because SpaceX and NASA have a relatively tight timeline for the rocket: It's the crewed lander for the agency's Artemis 3 moon mission, which is currently scheduled to lift off in mid-2027. And Space...
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