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On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a Houston company got closer to reaching the moon. The company, Intuitive Machines, announced that its Odysseus spacecraft had fired its engine for six minutes and 48 seconds, slowing it enough to be pulled by the moon’s gravity into a circular orbit 57 miles above the […]
NASA, the main sponsor with experiments on board, hopes to jumpstart lunar economy ahead of astronaut missions. A lunar lander has taken off for the moon in a bid to make the first United States landing since the Apollo missions more than half a century ago and the first achieved by a privately owned spacecraft. […]
John Raoux/AP The Odysseus lunar lander, developed by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Florida on February 15, 2024. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with . . .
A U.S. company’s failed moonshot has ended with a fiery plunge over the South Pacific By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer January 19, 2024, 2:52 PM ET • 3 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A U.S. company’s failed moonshot ended with a fiery plunge over the South Pacific, officials confirmed Friday. Astrobotic Technology said […]
A crippled American spaceship has been lost over a remote region of the South Pacific, probably burning up in the atmosphere in a fiery end to its failed mission to land on the Moon. Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 07:26 2 min Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was launched on January 8 under an experimental new partnership between […]
The delays in NASA’s Artemis moon program are making some members of Congress nervous. Last week, NASA announced that it’s now targeting September 2025 for its Artemis 2 mission, which will send four astronauts around
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed into space Monday, but encountered a problem shortly after launch that may prevent it from reaching the moon. The spacecraft, developed by a private company called Astrobotic Technology, lifted off at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The lunar mission that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, early on Monday has run into technical difficulties, jeopardising US hopes of returning to the Moon for the first time in half a century. Several hours […]
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent 8 January 2024, 14:58 GMT Updated 14 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: Vulcan rocket sends Moon mission on its way The private US Moon mission launched on Monday has run into technical problems.
A brand-new rocket lifted off early Monday morning from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending a robotic spacecraft toward the surface of the moon. No American spacecraft has made a soft landing on the moon since 1972. For United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the successful launch of the Vulcan Centaur rocket […]