lunar lander

2024-05-13


CNN —. Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA's lunar lander program — competing against Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts ...

Feb 23 (Reuters) - The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is "alive and well" but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar ...

The first US lunar lander to launch in over 50 years, Peregrine, is headed back to Earth after a critical fuel leak dashed its chances of landing on the moon. The spacecraft, which was supposed to collect data on radiation levels and navigation, will burn up in Earth's atmosphere and its payloads will be lost.

The first US-owned lunar lander in 50 years suffered a propellant leak that prevented it from landing on the Moon. The mission carried 20 payloads, including five NASA-funded science instruments, but only some data could be captured before the spacecraft lost power.

The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The landing time came and went in silence ...

It will be part of the Blue Ghost 2 mission which will also include a lunar lander for Nasa. Within the next few years, a new communications infrastructure will therefore unfold for the Moon.

The lunar lander Odysseus finally powered down Thursday one week after it became the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since NASA 's Apollo era came to an end five decades ago. Ground ...

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has a lander (SLIM, which landed upside-down in January) that recently awoke from a similar lunar night. But plummeting temperatures, dropping to some minus 250 degrees ...

SpaceX Launches Robotic Lunar Lander The Odysseus spacecraft is from the Houston company Intuitive Machines and weighs about 4,200 pounds with a full load of propellant.

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin expects to launch the first version of its Blue Moon lunar lander, a precursor to a future crewed lunar lander it is developing for NASA, in 2025. In an interview on the ...

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