Private Japanese moon lander reaches lunar orbit
A private Japanese lander has made it to the moon. The Hakuto-R spacecraft entered lunar orbit late Monday night (March 20), ...
Why The Moon Suddenly Needs Its Own Clocks
With dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade—and each needing to fix their exact positions independently from ...
NASA wants university students to solve the moon landing dust problem
NASA has announced the Human Lander Challenge, tasking teams of students to devise solutions to limit how much dust moon ...
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Private Japanese lunar lander successfully enters moon's orbit
If all goes to plan, the Hakuto-R spacecraft will be the first private lunar lander to safely touch down on the moon's ...
Private Japanese lander enroute to Moon
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace has successfully launched a lander on lunar orbit. The Mission 1 Lander performed ...
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Japan’s ispace on track for late April touchdown attempt of private moon lander
The privately built Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander, which launched from Florida in December, had encountered “several” mission hiccups during its trek toward the moon, but many of them were ...
Japan’s Ispace Announces Lander's Insertion In Moon Orbit, All Eyes On April Landing
Japan's private firm ispace developed the HAKUTO-R lander which launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on December 11 last ...
NASA picks a commercial partner to visit the far side of the moon
NASA has contracted Firefly Aerospace to deliver payloads including a radio telescope to the far side of the moon, which ...
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Japanese lander enters lunar orbit
WASHINGTON — A lunar lander developed by Japanese company ispace has entered orbit around the moon, setting up a lunar landing attempt by the end of April. Tokyo-based ispace said that its ...
The science of moon hopping
The videos of the first moon landing with astronauts bouncing around the lunar surface are looking like a lot of fun—but ...