Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Space
If all goes well with landing, MAPP — also known as Lunar Outpost’s Lunar Voyage 1 — will be the first American robotic rover on the moon, as well as the first private rover on a planetary body. It will deploy from Athena using a mechanism mounted on the...
Mar 4, 2025 | Auto Industry, Auto Tech, Space
In January, Toyota said its mobility software subsidiary “Woven by Toyota” was investing $44 million into Japanese rocket maker Interstellar Technologies. Rival Honda has been developing a proprietary reusable rocket since 2019 to...
Feb 27, 2025 | Featured, Space
The private Athena lunar lander is on its way to the moon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after sunset this evening (Feb. 26), carrying Athena and NASA’s ride-along Lunar Trailblazer orbiter aloft against a darkening sky here at...
Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly “tilt” the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the...
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