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A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...
Lunar lander's touchdown shrouded in mystery, location unknown 01:58. A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole ...
Ill-Fated Moon Lander Unexpectedly Woke Up and Sent ... Intuitive Machines also released a 360-degree image of Athena’s descent that was stitched together using the lander’s four on-board cameras.
The two legs of Intuitive Machines' private Athena moon lander jut up to the sky, with a half-lit blue Earth above, after the probe fell over during a landing attempt near the lunar south pole on ...
The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.
NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon’s south polar region as soon as this summer.
One of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on the lander caught the shadow stretching across the Moon’s surface. Firefly’s lunar lander touched down on ...
The Resilience lander from Ispace of Japan was launched on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that sent Firefly’s Blue Ghost on its way. But it is taking a longer, more fuel-efficient path to the moon.
Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? The company’s second lander, named Athena, launched on ...
While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon was looking back and getting a very different – and very rare – view.
A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander ...