On Jan. 15, a commercial lunar lander launched from Earth carrying the United States' first robotic rover designed to explore ...

A mechanical arm will then lower the garage containing ... Perhaps surprisingly, the U.S. has never sent a robotic rover to the moon before; the famous LRV moon buggy used during the Apollo ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket ... foregoing the need for robot arm-type retrieval systems. A radiation-tolerant computer will be ...

There will also be a rover called the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), built by Colorado company Lunar Outpost ... astronaut or some bulky robotic arms.” The AstroAnt’s first ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

The unpressurized lunar rover will be named “Tansuo,” which ... but with a slight change. Using four robotic arms, each fitted with a drill, the spacecraft will autonomously anchor-and-attach ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...