Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.
Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
If all goes well, the probe will spend two weeks studying the lunar surface, but first it has to land safely. Read on for the exact timing of Blue Ghost's moon landing and what it will do on the ...
A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth. The ...
Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes ...
Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...
After launching on 15 January, Blue Ghost seems to have pulled off the complex sequence of autonomous manoeuvres required to approach and land on the Moon. Its first images showed the probe ...
The four-day launch window opens at 7:16 PM ET on Feb. 26. If all goes according to plan, the first of the probes to reach the moon will be a lander called Athena, built by the company Intuitive ...
Multiple nations are vying to be the first to the lunar south pole and lay claim to some of the water, if its there. The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it lands, but it's carrying a number ...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe could be in trouble. Lunar Trailblazer powered up and began transmitting data after launch, but its operators began noticing power issues and subsequently lost ...