The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
A space robot said "goodnight" to the moon as it completed its mission, capturing the first high-definition images of a lunar ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...
While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...
A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA ...
Until Athena’s cameras, as well as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, can return images, the lander’s ... Mars and going to the moon again (with) humans.” The space agency has long said ...
A private lander from Houston-based Intuitive Machines, named Athena, landed on the Moon near the lunar south pole. The status is still being determined to check the orientation as the previous ...
Attitude refers to the orientation of the lander. "Images downlinked ... an effort by the space agency to use private companies to send landers and rovers to the moon. NASA's grander goals through ...
NASA's Athena lunar lander, developed by Intuitive Machines, has successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface as part of the agency’s Commercial ... to capture images of a lunar eclipse ...
(CNN) — A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company ... s surface, and take pictures.