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 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.

Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

then maybe we can go and make changes to the lander design to help minimize it." Maddock said. Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager ...

The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

“A lander on the surface of the moon ... NASA is letting private companies design and operate their own lunar landers—a trade-off that, on balance, boosts the odds for any given CLPS mission ...

“It’s a good time for the lunar economy,” Firefly CEO ... The mission will send a robotic lander to test Blue Moon’s design and engine capabilities, aiming to ensure a smooth ride for ...

“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.

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 ...

The RESILIENCE lunar lander is 8.2 feet (2.5 meters ... “The origin of ispace dates back to Google Lunar XPRIZE and the design and assembly of a flight-ready lunar rover. Our rover operations ...