US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

Private companies take the lead in space exploration in 2024, with Intuitive Machines landing on the moon and Space X's Falcon 9 launching Starlink satellites.

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While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...

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The solid-fuel Kairos rocket launched from Spaceport Kii launch pad in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture on December 18, 2024. JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images A Japanese startup’s second attempt to ...

Critical to the Artemis moon program, SpaceX also is building a variant of its Starship rocket to carry astronauts back to the lunar surface in 2027. It will be NASA's first such landing since the ...

This was Space One's second attempt to launch the Kairos small rocket A Japanese space startup's attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit was aborted minutes after liftoff on ...

A Japanese space startup announced that its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit was aborted just minutes after liftoff on Wednesday. The rocket self-destructed ...

Space One Co., a Japanese startup backed by Canon Inc., failed a second time to launch its rocket in yet another setback for the country’s commercial space industry. The lightweight Kairos ...