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The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully entered the moon’s orbit on February 13.. The new footage features a close-up of the ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from ...
The lander, named Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit. The spacecraft remains on track for a March 2 descent to the surface. Eric Lagatta ...
Blue Ghost will enter a high lunar orbit in the next few days and then begin lowering its orbit to get ready for a landing attempt. "We'll then spend approximately 16 days in lunar orbit before we ...
Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct planetary observations.
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 ...
The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is changing the game for lunar imaging alongside Firefly Aerospace with their new commercial Ocula lunar imaging service.
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 ...
Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...
The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.