Firefly Releases Stunning Footage of Blue Ghost Landing on the Moon
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down within a 328-foot (100-meter) target next to a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...
The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted ...
If successful, Athena would be the second US-made spacecraft to land on the moon this week. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace landed its Blue Ghost on Sunday. • Athena’s target landing site is ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...
A Houston-based space company just released a tantalizing sneak preview — an image sequence of its robotic spacecraft flying ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
Ray Allensworth, @Firefly_Space Spacecraft Program Director, explains why it would not have been a practical use of resources to stream live from the spacecraft during Blue Ghost's Moon landing.
landed on the moon while still moving sideways. A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side, limiting the mission's scientific return. Intuitive's stock fell 20% in the wake of ...
Thanks to visual effects artist, Michael Ranger, we’ve all been able to get a look at more of the Moon and see what it would ...
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