NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) are bringing us closer than we’ve been in decades to regular lunar exploration and scientific discovery. As a scientist, I admire what these companies […]

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Redwire and ispace U.S. have agreed to collaborate on future lunar missions, seeking to tap into what the companies see as growing interest from companies and governments.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Through government-backed lunar missions, companies are identifying customers for future flights. International space agencies, universities, companies and rideshare customers contributed about 10 percent of the money that […]

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Lunar lander companies want NASA to revise and expand its approach to buy services as Congress raises questions about NASA’s handling of VIPER.

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Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit. And that is incredible. First came Israel’s Beresheet, which crashed on […]

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After two hard landings on the moon, Intuitive Machines is outlining a more diversified future for the company, with a greater emphasis on data services.

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Firefly Aerospace says that its Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander mission has ended as expected, completing all its objectives.

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NASA says its program to use commercial spacecraft to deliver payloads to the lunar surface is working well despite just a single fully successful landing in four attempts.

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Intuitive Machines says its second lunar landing mission is over after concluding the toppled lander cannot generate sufficient power.

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The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines reached the surface of the moon March 6, but its status after landing was not clear.

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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar landed touched down on the surface of the moon March 2.

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Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander is on its way to the moon after a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch Feb. 26 that also deployed three rideshare payloads.

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The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is set to launch, taking to the moon NASA and commercial payloads as well as several rideshare spacecraft.

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One commercial lunar lander has entered orbit around the moon while another, launched at the same time, made a lunar flyby to set up a later return.

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A Falcon 9 successfully launched Jan. 15 two landers built by American and Japanese companies taking different paths to the surface of the moon.

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NASA selected Firefly Aerospace for a third lunar lander mission, this one including a rover, to launch in 2028.

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Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed that its second mission will launch on the same Falcon 9 as Firefly’s first lunar lander.

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NASA estimated it would have to cancel up to four commercial lunar lander missions and delay up to four more to fly a rover mission the agency announced in July it planned to cancel.

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Firefly Aerospace says it is planning a launch of its first lunar lander mission in January, meaning that none of the three commercial lander missions once slated to launch in the fourth quarter of this year will do so.

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Intuitive Machines suggested the need for “reformulation” of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration campaign to accommodate budget issues and delays.

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It won’t be easy for NASA to buy commercial services to support Mars exploration. The vast distance between Earth and the Red Planet poses a significant challenge, as do the […]

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NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a set of payloads to the south polar region of the moon in 2027, the first award under a commercial lunar lander program in nearly a year and a half.

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Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander was unable to make it to the moon because of a failure of a single valve, leading to work to redesign the valve and overall propulsion system on the company’s larger Griffin lander.

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Firefly Aerospace has completed its first lunar lander and shipped the spacecraft to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for testing ahead of a launch late this year.

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