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Moon RACER activates self-driving mode for lunar exploration

April 28, 2025

On a rugged, mock moonscape, the Moon RACER team (Intuitive Machines | Atlas Devices | AVL | Barrios | Boeing | CSIRO | FUGRO | Michelin | Northrop Grumman | […]

Filed Under: Agencies, CSIRO Australia, Intuitive Machines, LiDAR, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Lunar, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Lunar Rover, Moon Racer Lunar Terrain Vehicle, News

IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain

March 6, 2025

After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft […]

Filed Under: Data Communications, Falcon 9, IM-2 Lunar Mission (Intuitive Machines), Intuitive Machines, Launch, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Mission Payloads, Moon, Scientific Payloads, Solar, Solar Power Systems, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, Transmitter Tagged With: Featured

NASA acquires GPS signals on the Moon 

March 5, 2025

NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3rd when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals […]

Filed Under: Agencies, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), GNSS, Italian Space Agency (ASI), LuGRE Mission (NASA + ASI), Lunar, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Lunar Rover, Lunar Services, NASA, News

Vulcan Wireless assists U.S. return to the Moon after 52 years with record-breaking lunar communications on Blue Ghost Mission 1

March 3, 2025

Vulcan Wireless assists the United States returning to the Moon after 52 years! Vulcan Wireless played a critical role in the successful lunar landing and operation of Blue Ghost Mission […]

Filed Under: Antennas, Antennas / Terminals, Artemis, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Business Moves, CCSDS, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Cislunar, Commercial, Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program (CLDP), Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Comms, DVB-S2, Firefly Aerospace, Ground Stations, Lunar, Lunar Lander, Milestone, Moon, Orbital, Radios, S-Band, SWaP, Swedish Space Corp., Swedish Space Corp. (SSC), Telemetry, Vulcan, Waveforms, X-Band

SpaceX sends Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar landers on mission to the Moon

January 15, 2025

On Wednesday, January 15 at 1:11 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also […]

Filed Under: Biological & Scientic Experiments On-Orbit, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Experiments, Firefly Aerospace, ispace, ispace [Japan], Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A (Kennedy Space Center), Lunar Lander, Mission Payloads, Moon, Regolith, Science Experiments, SpaceX Tagged With: Featured

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar mission to launch via a Falcon 9 on January 15th from Canaveral

January 9, 2025

Firefly’s first Blue Ghost mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, will deliver 10 science and technology instruments to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services […]

Filed Under: Agencies, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Falcon 9, Firefly Aerospace, Ghost Riders in the Sky Mission (Firefly), Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A (Kennedy Space Center), Lunar Lander, Moon, NASA, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), News, SpaceX, Upcoming Launch Tagged With: Featured

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon readies for launch

November 26, 2024

Firefly Aerospace has completed the environmental testing on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of the first mission to the Moon in support of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) […]

Filed Under: Blue Ghost Mission, Cape Canaveral SFS, Environmental Testing, Falcon 9, Firefly Aerospace, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), Lunar Lander, Moon, News, SpaceX

Axiom Space teams with Astrolab to advance lunar exploration

April 8, 2024

Astrolab, together with teammates Axiom Space and Odyssey Space Research, were awarded a NASA contract to advance the development of a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to enable Artemis astronauts to […]

Filed Under: Astrolab, Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), Axiom Space, Commercial Lunar Program, FLEX Rover, Lunar, Lunar Exploration, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Lunar Rover, Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), Lunar Transportation, NASA, NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), Odyssey Space Research

NASA tech contributes to soft Moon landing, agency science underway

February 25, 2024

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Hardware, IM-1 Lunar Mission [Intuitive Machines], Intuitive Machines, Lunar Lander, Moon, NASA, Nova-C Lundar Lander (Intuitive Machines), Space-Based Hardware

UPDATE 2: SpaceX scrubs Wednesday’s launch of Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission

February 13, 2024

UPDATE 2: SpaceX and Intuitive Machines scrubbed the launch attempt originally planned for Wednesday morning. SpaceX is now targeting Thursday, February 15 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive […]

Filed Under: Falcon 9, IM-1 Lunar Mission [Intuitive Machines], Intuitive Machines, Kennedy Space Center, Launch, Launch Complex 39A (Kennedy Space Center), Launch Delay, Lunar Lander, SpaceX

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