Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s, the firm said ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

The European PULSAR research project, conducted between 2022 and 2024, has disclosed the conceptual design for a plutonium-238 (Pu-238)-fuelled ...

The company's second lunar lander, Athena, will carry a small rover and other payloads when its launched, which is ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ...

In a statement, the Elon Musk-owned company noted that the Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan-based company Ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar lander. It added that a ...

Tokyo, Jan. 15 (Jiji Press)--A lunar lander developed by Japanese space exploration startup ispace Inc. was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday in its second attempt to ...

This uncrewed mission is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services Ispace's Resilience aims for Mare Frigoris in the Moon's northern hemisphere Blue Ghost, developed by Firefly Aerospace, is ...