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 […]
Lunar Missions
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 […]
Aegis Aerospace celebrates 1st Moon bound Lunar Test Facility + a major milestone
On the heels of sending its first lunar test facility to the Moon, Aegis Aerospace Inc. has completed a major milestone on its second lunar test facility. Aegis Aerospace’s first lunar test […]
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 […]
Infostellar selected by JAXA for a feasibility study on lunar mission support ground station development
Infostellar Inc. has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for a “Feasibility Study on lunar mission support ground station development”—Infostellar has now begun work on the study. […]
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 […]
Terran Orbital’s CAPSTONE smallsat exceeds expectations
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) as announced that the company’s 12U smallsat built for Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE™ (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission in support of […]
Lonestar launches Independence their first lunar data center test mission payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 enroute to the Moon
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. successfully launched its advanced lunar data center test mission, “Independence,” which began its voyage to the Moon as a customer payload with Intuitive Machines aboard their […]