The launch will be ispace’s second attempt at landing on the moon. Its first ended in failure when its Hakuto-R spacecraftcrashed intothe lunar surface in 2023. The Japanese company says it has since upgraded Resilience’s hardware and software to avoid the mistakes th...
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander lifts off atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Feb. 15, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) A smooth launch (and rocket landing) The Falcon 9 lifted off from KSC's Pad 39A today at 1:05 a.m. EST (0605 GMT). About 7.5 minutes later, the rocket's first ...
SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads. ...
Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on SN15’s successful flight and landing! MAY 2, 2021 Dragon Returns to Earth After 167 days in space, the longest duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft since the final Skylab mission in 1974, Dragon and the Crew-1 astronauts,Mike Hopkins,Victor...
moon than it is from the surface of Earth. It will just be economically the right path to get it from the moon and from near-Earth object. Every metal that we know of is on the moon. So If you can build stuff in space,...
landing, which will mark NASA’s return to the Moon with humans since the 1970s, will be called Artemis III and should receive plenty of attention. After that, SpaceX would have moved on to a new operational contract with NASA, where the space agency would buy individual flights of the ...
NASA Monitoring SpaceX and Blue Origin Progress on Human Landing Systems for Artemis 3-5 HLS Program Manager Lisa Watson-Morgan tellsSpaceflight NowNASA is concerned about SpaceX schedule, expects 15-17 launches of Starship Moon lander variant prior to return of humans to the lunar surface during...
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 ...
“Congratulations @SpaceX on Starship’s successful test flight this morning! We are another step closer to returning humanity to the Moon through #Artemis—then looking onward to Mars,” Nelson posted. “恭喜@SpaceX 今天上午成功试飞星舰!我们离通过 #...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander aims to carry 10 NASA tech demos and scientific instruments to the moon. Firefly Aerospace/NASA Ispace, which is now a publicly traded company on the Tokyo stock exchange, made its first moon landing attempt in 2023, but the Hakuto-R spacecraft used ...