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Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole

REVISE THE ARTEMIS CAMPAIGN IN JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS. INTUITIVE MACHINES IS SET TO LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. THE LUNAR LANDER WILL BE A RESOURCE TO SEARCH FOR WATER BENEATH THE MOON’S SURFACE ...
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NASA tests 14-inch hybrid rocket motor for smoother and safer Moon touchdowns

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center experts in Huntsville, Alabama, are conducting crucial tests for a safe lunar landing. They have been firing a 14-inch 3D-printed hybrid rocket motor, developed at ...
USA Today

Athena spacecraft is 2nd lander to reach moon in a week, but location, condition unclear

For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ahead ...
Los Angeles Times

Private lunar lander touches down on the moon, but its status is unknown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen ...

How the moon kicked Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module into a new orbit

Discover how the moon's gravity altered Chandrayaan-3's propulsion module orbit, creating a new trajectory in space ...
Jalopnik

China On Track To Beat NASA To Moon After Lunar Lander Test

Over a half-century after the triumph of Apollo, it's frustrating to see China take the lead in a new space race as the White House shackles NASA to exert political control. The China Manned Space ...
Ars Technica

A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon’s surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...
Yahoo

What did the eclipse look like from the moon's surface? See photos taken by lunar lander

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by ...
SpaceNews

IM-2 lunar lander on its side after touchdown

An image released by Intuitive Machines showing the IM-2 lander during its descent to the surface of the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines/NASA webcast Updated 6 p.m. Eastern with comments from ...
PBS

Another private lunar lander has touched down on the moon, but may have fallen over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...
Space.com

Private Japanese moon lander crashed due to laser errors, ispace says

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface. When you purchase through links ...
CNN

Blue Ghost lander captured a solar eclipse while on the moon. See the stunning imagery here

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. While parts of the ...