ispace revealed that the Mare Frigoris or 'sea of cold' has been chosen for three reasons. First is the stable terrain which poses less risk to the lander during descent, rich regolith perfect for ...

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 ...

Firefly general counsel. Regolith sample collection and return, for example, “are precursors for resource extraction and mining.” Ananda Martin, ispace technologies U.S. general counsel ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost actually flew up with a second commercial company’s moonbound payload, the lunar lander Resilience with a rover named Tenacious for Japanese company ispace, which is ...

The ispace Resilience lander will lift off atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Wednesday at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT), with Firefly ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 1:11 a.m. with both the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost moon lander on Blue Ghost Mission 1, the third of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

Same thing with iSpace. They just announced a partnership ... Sitting on one side of it is the Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander on display. I know that it was here last year, and ...

TBD: Firefly Aerospace with Blue Ghost lander under ... and the Japanese company ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission-2 lunar lander. Blue Ghost is designed to deliver 10 NASA payloads.

Finally, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost crossed the ... Soon, the U.S.-Japanese iSpace team will attempt its own touchdown, marking yet another milestone in what is quickly evolving into a ...

Both Firefly Aerospace and Japan's ispace will ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to leave Earth as early as 1:11 a.m. ET Jan. 15. Firefly's Blue Ghost lander was originally scheduled to lift ...