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Sidus Space’s extended and amended preliminary $120M agreement with Lonestar for six lunar data storage spacecraft

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a space mission enabler, will move forward with, and broaden the scope of, a preliminary agreement valued at approximately $120 million with Lonestar Data Holdings. The […]

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

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 […]

NASA acquires GPS signals on the Moon 

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 […]

Firefly Aerospace is “over the Moon” as the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon

Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced its Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down on the Moon’s surface in an upright, stable configuration on the […]

Trans Lunar Injection completed by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost + imagery captures

Firefly Aerospace is now four weeks into their first mission to the Moon—Blue Ghost recently completed its Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) to escape Earth’s orbit and is now in transit […]

ispace-U.S. to use Swedish Space Corporation’s Lunar Ground Station Network for its M3 lunar mission

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC Space US) recently signed a collaboration agreement with the U.S. lunar exploration company ispace technologies U.S., Inc. (ispace-U.S.), to support their upcoming Mission 3 with the […]

Axiom Space teams with Astrolab to advance lunar exploration

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 […]