10:40 GMT - Monday, 03 March, 2025
Updated 7:45 a.m. Eastern with post-landing comments. CEDAR PARK, Texas — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar landed touched down on the surface of the moon March 2, a key milestone for the company and NASA’s
Posted 18 hours ago by inuno.ai
Nicknamed ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky,’ the mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing and is part of a NASA partnership with industry to cut costs and support Artemis, the program
Posted 1 days ago by inuno.ai
WASHINGTON — More than 50 years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States’ return to the lunar surface, when the first private lander touched down last February 2024. Now, starting Sunday, two more
WASHINGTON — One commercial lunar lander has entered orbit around the moon while another, launched at the same time, has performed a lunar flyby to set up a later return. Firefly Aerospace confirmed Feb. 13 that
Posted February 15, 2025 by inuno.ai
WASHINGTON — Space transportation company Firefly Aerospace secured a $21.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to launch a mission to orbit under the military’s quick-reaction space program, marking the company’s third such award. The
Posted February 15, 2025 by inuno.ai
WASHINGTON — A Texas state agency awarded $47.7 million in grants to five space companies to support projects like construction of facilities and development of spacecraft in the state. The Texas Space Commission announced Feb. 10
Posted February 11, 2025 by inuno.ai
ORLANDO, Fla. — Firefly Aerospace expects to start launching its Alpha rocket from launch sites in Virginia and Sweden as soon as 2026 to help the company avoid growing congestion at launch sites in Florida and
Posted January 28, 2025 by inuno.ai
