New Ocula imaging service offers high-resolution ultraviolet and visible spectrum imaging of the Moon from lunar orbit CEDAR PARK, Texas, June 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace, the ...

After orbiting the Earth for 25 days, Blue Ghost will fire up its thrusters and head to the moon, where it will orbit for 16 days before landing. Landing on the moon is no easy feat, as seen in ...

An Elytra with an LLNL scope will serve as the transfer vehicle for that mission, which will put Blue Ghost down on the moon's far side (and also deliver a European Space Agency probe to lunar orbit).

After launch, Blue Ghost will spend 25 days orbiting the Earth, followed by a translunar-injection burn and four-day transit ...

Blue Ghost will spend another 16 days in lunar orbit, phasing into a descent trajectory to land on the surface of the moon ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off with the Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R from Florida’s Launch Center 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. These two lunar landers will now be ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct planetary observations.

The rocket's first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes later as planned, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor ...