Major test milestone: MK1 endured extreme vacuum and temperature swings in NASA’s Chamber A, confirming readiness for its first lunar mission. Mission objectives: The uncrewed south pole flight will ...

Major milestone reached: Blue Origin’s MK1 lander cleared NASA’s demanding thermal-vacuum tests, moving closer to its first lunar mission. Mission to south pole: Planned for late 2026, MK1 will ...

AND A CITY GETTING BACK UP. PITTSBURGH LEARNED HARD LESSONS WITH PEREGRINE. NOW THE CITY IS BUILDING ITS ANSWER. I AM SO PROUD OF ASTROBOTIC. AND YOU KNOW THE OTHER COMPANIES IN PITTSBURGH, YOU KNOW, ...

NASA has unveiled revamped plans to build a moon base near the lunar south pole that will one day allow for American astronauts to have a permanent presence on Earth's celestial neighbor. Announced ...

Tokyo company ispace released a fresh photo of the moon's south pole taken by its lunar lander Resilience. Credit: ispace A Japanese commercial spacecraft has sent home another close-up image of the ...

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander has given us a nice shot of the moon just two weeks before its historic touchdown attempt. On Thursday morning (May 22), the Tokyo-based company ispace, which ...

Intuitive Machines, a space technology, infrastructure and services company, has secured a $180.4 million contract from NASA to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar South Pole region.

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $177 million contract to deploy payloads to the Moon’s south pole. “Firefly is honored to support another NASA CLPS task order as a proven, reliable partner for ...