CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo era was still working Wednesday but not for long, company officials said. Intuitive Machines, the company that built the lander, released new photos that showed at least one broken leg on the six-legged spacecraft. The lander came in too […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is expected to cease operations Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon. Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Monday. JAXA called the signal, received late Sunday night, a “miracle” because the probe was not designed to survive the lunar night when temperatures can fall to minus […]
The return of America to the moon went sideways, literally, after hectic hacking on Thursday saved the landing from being a disaster. As a result, even though many celebrated the return of America’s first moon landing since 1972, the stock in the company that made the lunar lander Odysseus dropped 32 percent in after-hours trading […]
When I wrote about the moon landing yesterday i noted that a previous attempt by Japan, which took place just a month ago, had landed on the surface upside down. Yesterday when the Odysseus lander reached the surface of the moon there was some confusion. For several minutes mission control didn’t have communications with Odysseus […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private U.S. lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but contact with the craft was weak, company officials said. There were no immediate updates on the lander’s condition from the company, Intuitive Machines. Tension mounted in the company’s command center in Houston, as controllers awaited a signal from the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander circled the moon while aiming for a touchdown Thursday that would put the U.S. back on the surface for the first time since NASA’s famed Apollo moonwalkers. Intuitive Machines was striving to become the first private business to successfully pull off a lunar landing, a feat achieved […]
Even though we haven’t put human beings on the moon in over 50 years, several space agencies are attempting to explore the lunar surface with landers and robotic probes. It’s a small club of nations that have landed something on the moon, and Japan recently became the fifth nation, joining the U.S., China, India, […]
As Japan’s space agency prepares for its first moon landing early Saturday, it’s aiming to hit a very small target. Source link
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