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

The moon has come into view for Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on Earth's nearest ...

Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where the Apollo 11 crew launched to the Moon. A Falcon 9 successfully lifted ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center ... Resilience, like ispace’s initial lunar lander mission launched in late 2022, will take a low-energy trajectory to the moon, attempting ...

The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space ...

Firefly Aerospace launches Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a 45-day journey to conduct scientific ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched early Wednesday ... Blue Ghost isn't the only lunar lander on the way to Earth's dusty sidekick. This trip is take two for Tokyo-based ispace ...

Falcon 9 is in startup. The callout. This means that the, uh, Falcon vehicles internal flight computers have taken over the launch countdown. We're now just waiting for the final go from the ...