Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...

Ispace is targeting an area of the moon called ... (The other vehicle NASA selected is SpaceX’s Starship, which will aim to carry out the first landing in 2027.) A Blue Moon vehicle capable ...

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Ispace officials said they were confident that ... For the first 25 days, it is to circle around Earth as the company turns on and checks out the spacecraft’s systems, before heading on a ...

The ispace team reviewed all the aspects of the ... This was all done to iron out “the issues that caused the hard landing,” he explained. “Finally, we have found efficiencies in assembly ...

The MoonHouse will hitch a ride with the lunar lander Resilience from Japanese company ispace, launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket where it will travel for four to six months before landing on ...

Japan's Ispace, US's Firefly Launch Commercial Moon Landers By Joey Roulette and Kantaro Komiya ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO (Reuters) -Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S ...

The vehicle subsequently ran out of propellant and crashed to the surface. That problem has been corrected, ispace says, prompting the company to name its second Hakuto lander "Resilience." ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Moonhouse (@the_moonhouse) The MoonHouse will hitch a ride with the lunar lander Resilience from Japanese company ispace, launching on a SpaceX Falcon ...