While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has secured an 862 million euro contract to design and construct Argonaut, a European lander set for regular missions to the Moon ... Continue Reading → ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

The lander will fly to the Moon and land on its surface assuring the European autonomous access to the Moon Thales Alenia Space plays a pioneering role to enable the European autonomous access to the ...

The mission will send a robotic lander to test Blue Moon’s design and engine capabilities, aiming to ensure a smooth ride for future missions with valuable science payloads or crew on board.

“We’ve done everything we can on the design and the engineering,” Kim ... January 2025 shows the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander being placed in a rocket fairing.

A spacecraft which is due to be built, tested and assembled in Belfast is destined for the Moon, thanks to a new contract signed by Thales Alenia Space. The company, who have a facility in Belfast, ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander stands about 6.6 feet tall (2 meters) and is 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide. Coogan said it took about three years to build the Blue Ghost, which included the design ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

Launching on a Japanese moon lander and mounted to the front bumper ... "Experienced engineers have worked on the Moonhouse's technical design over the past two years. The house structure has ...

In recent years, several spacecraft failed in their attempts to land on the moon. But 2025 may offer crucial second chances.