First Private Lunar Lander Passes Launch Tests at SpaceX Facility
Testing Complete In July, SpaceIL announced plans to send the first privately funded lander to the Moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. On…
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China’s Lander Just Sprouted First-Ever Plants on the Moon
Moon Cotton For the first time in history, humans have grown something on the surface of the Moon. When China’s Chang’e-4 lander left on its…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Fires up Solar Cells and Sends Selfie
No Time to Rest The InSight Mars lander really deserved some vacation time. After a strenuous seven months of gliding through outer space, the…
Nasa InSight Mars lander sends back ‘beautiful’ selfie from red planet’s surface
Nasa’s brand new Mars lander has sent back the first stunning of the surface of the red planet, taken at the end of a terrifying journey. As well as…
Mars Insight Lander Will Drill Into Mars and Test for Marsquakes
NASA’s InSight Mars lander has successfully landed on Mars. InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all…
Breaking: NASA’s InSight Lander Just Landed on Mars
Mission Accomplished It took six and a half long months of space travel to reach the Martian surface, but NASA’s InSight Mars Lander has finally…
Pour One out for MASCOT, the Asteroid-Exploring Lander | Tech Top
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MASCOT’s lifespan was shorter than the average mayfly’s, but we’d like to see an insect accomplish half of what this robot did during the 17…
Lockheed Martin’s Giant Moon Lander Is an Absolute Unit | Tech Top
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The Apollo Lunar Module weighed less than 11,000 pounds and was just 22 feet tall, even with its legs extended. And that’s after years…
European lander prepares to reach Ryugu asteroid | Innovation
A European-made lander tasked with extracting samples from an asteroid orbiting the Sun some 300 million km away is expected to make landfall on…