The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in the moon 's northern reaches. But that's not ...

Although Resilience and Blue Ghost shared a rocket, Resilience is taking longer ... China, India, and Japan. Private companies are also vying to offer cheaper and more frequent space exploration ...

Although Resilience and Blue Ghost shared a rocket, Resilience is taking longer to reach the moon and will "complete ... Only five nations have soft-landed spacecraft on the moon: the Soviet Union, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system of its own. The H3 rocket ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...

March 4 (UPI) -- Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on June 6. Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada held a press conference Monday to ...

Japan’s space agency successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system of its own. The H3 rocket ...

Rocket Lab will launch a private radar imaging satellite to orbit tonight (March 14), and you can watch the action live An Electron vehicle carrying a single satellite for the Japan-based Earth ...

Three private missions at once is notable ... That's why two Texas-based companies and one Japanese firm are flocking to the moon this month. All three missions were launched aboard SpaceX ...

)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese startup Dymon ... in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as the Tokyo-based firm seeks to become the world's first private company to explore and photograph ...

(iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company ... as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket Lab has three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at ...