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The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched a ride on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a 1:11 a.m. EST launch from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...
A new year of lunar exploration kicked off early Wednesday, when two robotic landers and a small rover began their journeys to the moon. A SpaceX rocket lifted off at 1:11 a.m. ET from NASA’s ...
The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known as "Blue Ghost," is carrying 10 sophisticated instruments for NASA while the Japanese spacecraft, built by Tokyo-based ...
A robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company was initially scheduled to reach the moon at 5:30 p.m. ET but was delayed. U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon [Video] Skip to ...
Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15, 2025.As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission aims to deliver ten scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future human exploration of the Moon under the broader Artemis program.
NASA selected a Nova-C mission for CLPS task order CP-11. [61] It will deliver payloads to the lunar swirl in the Reiner Gamma region. [62] In August 2021, Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its third lunar mission, IM-3. [13] As of August 2024, the launch of IM-3 is expected to take place no earlier than October 2025.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, launched into space on Feb. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The 14-foot-tall lander then spent six days cruising more than 620,000 miles ...
Selection of the Starship lunar lander. In 2021, NASA entered into a firm fixed-price contract with SpaceX valued at US$2.89 billion, spread over a number of years to develop and manufacture the Starship HLS lunar lander, [5] as well as the execution of two operational flights: an uncrewed demonstration mission and a crewed lunar landing. [36] [21]