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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 ...
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]
For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. ... Firefly lander launches on SpaceX rocket. The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched a ...
The ILV descent element was a variant of the Blue Moon lunar lander that Blue Origin had been working on for nearly three years by early 2020. [39] At the end of the year-long program, the ILV was not chosen for further development, NASA having selected instead SpaceX's Starship HLS bid. [41]
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.
Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...