'Goodbye Earth, hello moon': What Blue Ghost lander has been up to in NASA mission
The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, all was not lost. NASA had committed to the contract and said Astrobotic could fly a mass simulator to the Moon. The ...
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VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
"NASA is looking forward to partnering with U.S. industry to meet the challenges of performing volatiles science in the lunar ...
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...
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Vulcan Nails First Flight, But Peregrine Falls Short
It was hoped that the rocket, a combination of the all-new ... Astrobotic Technology announced the development of the Peregrine lander in 2016, and by 2019, it had been awarded a $108 million ...
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Why the 1st private lunar lander failed
It has been about seven months since Peregrine, a silvery lander that shot for the moon ... spacecraft to fly aboard the ...
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The next leg of the new moon race is about to kick off — and it could be the most exciting yet
Its Peregrine lander began leaking fuel after reaching ... SpaceX’s Starship — but the statement did not say whether the rocket may be ready for such a demo this year.
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We’re going back to the moon: Everything to know about NASA’s latest lunar lander mission
The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched a ride on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a 1:11 a.m. EST launch from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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FireFly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is on its way to the moon: What to know about NASA mission
Within about an hour, Blue Ghost separated from the Falcon 9 rocket on an elliptical Earth ... landing attempt in January 2024 when its Peregrine lander began leaking a critical amount of fuel.