the rocket company founded by Elon Musk. But before sending FLEX to the moon, Astrolab wants to send a smaller, 1,000-pound rover named FLIP — short for FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform — to ...

Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.

A pair of landers, from the American company Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company Ispace, will head to the moon using the same SpaceX rocket ... and a small rover, Tenacious, The two ...

Private Moon company Astrobotic’s mission has new life after finding a match made in heaven with its new customer, Astrolab, following NASA’s decision to pull the plug on the agency’s VIPER Moon rover ...

NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, soaring through space with a tiny lunar rover called Tenacious ... from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 2:17 a.m. ET and established ...

Firefly's rover, Blue Ghost, is expected to take about 45 days to reach the Moon, once it has separated from the SpaceX rocket. It will then drill, collect samples and also take X-ray images of ...

GRIFFIN ONE, TO THE MOON ... a rover from California-based Astrolab to the moon by the end of the year.In January 2024, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on a Vulcan rocket for what ...

The house, stored in the rover's cargo, will spend four months in space before landing on the Moon ... creating a house model resistant to the shocks and vibrations of the rocket launch.

NASA has announced the next step in its effort to establish a public/private partnership to land and operate the agency’s ...