Thales has secured a nearly $900 million contract from the ESA to develop the Lunar Descent Element (LDE) for the Argonaut ...
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...
ESA and the Argonauts The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal worth €862 million with Thales Alenia Space to develop a lunar lander.… The lander, called Argonaut, is designed to carry cargo ...
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...
The lander is packed with 10 scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and gather data to support future human missions to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month. Dubbed Blue Ghost, the spacecraft beamed back photos ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan ...
“This commitment to flying missions reinforces our broader efforts of developing a heavy cargo lander, establishing a lunar data relay satellite constellation, and providing sustainable ...
Blue Ghost is Firefly's first-ever moon lander. It launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which also carried a second private lunar lander — Resilience, which was built by the ...