Astrobotic secures new lunar payload after NASA nixed rover last year
Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
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Europe signs contract for its 1st moon lander, Argonaut
Argonaut is designed to deliver supplies, infrastructure and payloads to the moon. It could survive for five years on the ...
NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
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See the First Stunning Images Taken by the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on Its ‘Scenic Route’ to the Moon
The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit ...
Trump sends moon rock back to NASA that had been displayed in White House since 2021
The moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential ...
VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
NASA is asking U.S. companies for proposals to move forward with the ice-hunting VIPER moon rover, a $450 million project the ...
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Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, NASA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral
Wednesday, February 26: NASA-SpaceX Intuitive Machines lander As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ second delivery to the ...
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Two private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon. They shared the ride to save money ...
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Pennsylvania company plans to land rover on moon: ‘This is how we lead,’ Fetterman said
A Pennsylvania robotics company aims to put a robotic rover on the moon by the end of the year and U.S. Senator John ...
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50 years ago NASA may have accidentally destroyed life on Mars
Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...