Day: December 20, 2024

Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner completed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours to install an advanced X-ray spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Friday. During the spacewalk, the cosmonauts connected the SPIN-X1-MVN spectrometer to the Zvezda service module of the ISS, which will enable …

Russian Cosmonauts Install X-ray Spectrometer On Int’l Space Station. Read More »

Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the moon is nearly ready to fly. The company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Monday (Dec. 16) for integration with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the robotic probe — as well as the private Japanese moon lander Resilience …

SpaceX Will Launch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander To The Moon In Mid-January With These 10 NASA Payloads. Read More »

Two private moon landers will take flight on the same SpaceX rocket next month, if all goes according to plan. The Japanese company ispace announced on Tuesday night (Dec. 17) that its second-ever moon mission will launch on the same Falcon 9 rocket that will loft Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly …

Double Moon Mission! SpaceX To Launch 2 Private Lunar landers In January. Read More »