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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully landed on the moon, marking the first commercial soft landing. Future ...
Historical context of GNSS in space. The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, ...
By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost just completed its mission ...
Feedback is delighted to hear from a reader who proposes an ingenious new unit of data – but we have some quibbles with the ...
Brian Walsh’s experiment on Blue Ghost did not look at the moon but back at Earth. “It’s a really good vantage point,” said Dr. Walsh, a professor of mechanical engineering at Boston ...
During its journey, Blue Ghost spent 25 days in Earth’s orbit, four days travelling to the Moon, and 16 days in lunar orbit. After landing, it operated 10 NASA payloads for a full lunar day ...
The Cedar Park-based aerospace company responsible for successfully landing on the moon last month was awarded a new ...
shows the lunar surface and the setting sun with Earth and Venus on the horizon, during the lunar mission of Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander. The robot collected collected nearly 9,000 images ...
The satellite was caught speeding through low Earth orbit, moving between three images that were taken seconds apart.
Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight in March. Blue Origin is also set to send Katy Perry into space aboard its ...
“So it seems that the Blue Ghost has sent back 50 blue whales of ... Adams-esque image of a torrent of whales hurtling to Earth from the moon. But we are going to quibble Dionne’s maths.