In collaboration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, DARPA recently released the Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO) solicitation. The LASSO program aims to develop technologies to support significantly increasing the […]
Lunar Orbit
Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage
Firefly Aerospace is now less than 4 days from landing on the Moon and just released more footage captured during Blue Ghost’s third lunar orbit maneuver on February 24 that […]
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 […]
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 […]
mu Space and ispace’s MoU for future lunar missions
mu Space and Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. have signed two MoUs on payload services and strategic cooperation with ispace inc., a private, lunar, robotic exploration company based in Japan that […]
NASA, United Arab Emirates announce Artemis Lunar Gateway Airlock
NASA and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) have entered into an agreement for MBRSC to provide the Crew and Science Airlock module for the Gateway Space Station. As […]
Firefly Aerospace completes lander structure before NASA’s Moon landing
Firefly Aerospace has completed the development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for Firefly’s first lunar mission slated to land on the […]
Ramon.Space and Lulav Space to Navigate Space IL’s Next Two Lunar Landings
Ramon.Space and Lulav Space are partnering to provide an advanced navigation solution for the Beresheet 2 lunar missions scheduled for 2025. The Beresheet 2 lunar missions are developed by SpaceIL, […]
NASA’s Moon-observing smallsat is ready for its Artemis launch
NASA’s water-scouting cubesat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than a shoe box, Lunar IceCube’s data will have an outsized impact on lunar […]