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Resilience lunar lander enters orbit around the moon

by Jeff Foust May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

Japanese company ispace says its second lunar lander in now in orbit around the moon ahead of a landing attempt in early June.

ispace APEX 1.0 lander

Redwire and ispace U.S. to collaborate on lunar missions

by Jeff Foust April 8, 2025May 2, 2025

China’s iSpace secures D round funding, targets December orbital launch and landing

by Andrew Jones March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

Blue Ghost 1 in lunar orbit

Blue Ghost 1 enters lunar orbit as Resilience flies by the moon

by Jeff Foust February 15, 2025February 15, 2025

F9 launch Firefly ispace

Falcon 9 launches American and Japanese commercial lunar landers

by Jeff Foust January 15, 2025January 15, 2025

A Landspace Zhuque-3 prototype rocket stage, powered by a methane-liquid oxygen exhuast plume, in the skies above the desert at Jiuquan spaceport, Jan. 19, 2024.

China to debut new Long March and commercial rockets in 2025

by Andrew Jones January 2, 2025January 3, 2025

Blue Ghost 1

Firefly, ispace lunar landers to share Falcon 9 launch

by Jeff Foust December 18, 2024December 22, 2024

Blue Ghost 1

Firefly sets January launch date for first lunar lander mission

by Jeff Foust November 25, 2024November 25, 2024

BeciColombo at Mercury

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ESA and JAXA sign statement on expanding deep space cooperation

by Andrew Jones November 21, 2024November 21, 2024

Intuitive Machines is preparing IM-2, a Nova-C lunar lander dubbed Athena, for an early January mission to the moon’s south pole. Onboard the lander is NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) experiment designed to search for water ice on the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines

From the Magazine

Foust Forward | Is there a business case for the moon?

by Jeff Foust November 15, 2024November 14, 2024