NASA with its Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon by 2027—but likely later—for the first time since 1972, while ...

The Resilience lander, a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a long way to ... launch window opens at 4:00 p.m. CT. NASA moon rover and orbiter delivery: Feb. 26 Intuitive ...

While theC-3’s rover failed to awaken after the lunar night, JAXA’s rover did survive the lunar night and even snapped pictures of the lunar surface after that! This mission, also known as the ...

a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a longer route to the moon to save on fuel, arriving about four to five months from now. This time the spacecraft is bringing a tiny rover ...

No longer taking the canceled VIPER rover mission. The Griffin lander will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of Nobile crater close to the lunar south pole. Jan. 6: SpaceX Falcon 9 on ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA agreed to provide two landing slots to Japan in exchange for its role in developing and providing a rover that astronauts ... s first manned lunar missions. JAXA said it has not chosen ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has secured an 862 million euro contract to design and construct Argonaut, a European lander set for regular missions to the Moon ... Continue Reading → ...

Landing on the moon remains onerous. The moon's exosphere provides virtually no drag to slow a spacecraft down as it approaches the ground. Furthermore, there are no GPS systems on the moon to help ...

In 2024, a joint experiment between the Japan Space Systems Agency and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...