Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace. It gave Resilience a fuel-saving gravity assist, changing the lander's ...
As the U.S. and China ramp up their 21st-century race to land humans on the moon, it’s easy to overlook another aspect of lunar exploration that in many respects has become a “no contest ...
NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived at the moon and is now orbiting ... the lander took a selfie of itself with Earth in the background. It's not every day we see a selfie containing ...
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...
If no major problems ... drill into the soil below the lander, monitor background X-ray emissions, test whether Earth-orbiting navigation satellites can be used near the moon and the ...
(CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week.