“Y’all stuck the landing, we’re on the Moon,” an engineer at Firefly’s mission control in Austin, Texas, exclaimed, as cheers erupted among the team. CEO Jason Kim later confirmed the lander was ...
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 spacecraft made history by becoming the first private space mission to land on the Moon. In doing so, it positions itself as the leading company in ...
This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, ...
Firefly Aerospace on Sunday became the first to achieve complete success with its Blue Ghost lunar lander, on the ...
Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.
Firefly Aerospace has secured a contract for a dedicated Alpha launch that will transport satellites for NASA’s Investigation ...
Two moon landings in less than a week have once again turned the spotlight on space startups as NASA leans on private ...
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The Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 spacecraft from Vandenberg Space Force Base, with the 52-minute launch window opening at 6:25 am PT (14:25 UTC). Lockheed is self-funding the ...