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6:46pm, 9th May, 2019

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon that would support NASA’s goal of landing astronauts...

4:38pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off “Blue Moon,” a lunar lander built by his space company Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Update, 5 p.m. ET: Bezos showed off the new Blue Origin BE-7 engine, which will hot fire for the first time this summer. He also ca...

5:42pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

Israel’s Beresheet lander crashes on moon, ending privately funded space odyssey

A picture sent back to Earth from the Beresheet lander during its descent shows the moon’s cratered surface 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) below. In the foreground, a sign emblazoned with the Israeli flag is mounted to the spacecraft itself. (SpaceIL Pho...

3:34pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

Israeli lander lost during descent to moon, after weeks-long space odyssey

(SpaceIL Photo / Twitter) Beresheet lunar failed to land on the surface of the moon on Thursday, preventing it from becoming the first Israeli spacecraft and the first privately funded probe to reach the surface of a celestial body beyond Earth. Com...

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

10:52pm, 5th March, 2019

Space

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

An image captured by the Beresheet lunar lander shows a plaque with the Israeli flag in the foreground, and Earth in the background. (Beresheet / SpaceIL Photo) An Israeli lunar lander gets photobombed by Earth in a selfie released today by SpaceIL’s...

10:18pm, 21st February, 2019

Space

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Satu telecommunications satellite as well as the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander and an Air Force research satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) A Space...

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

12:02am, 4th October, 2018

Space

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

An artist’s conception shows the MASCOT lander sitting on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. (JAXA Illustration) A robotic probe the size of a shoebox set itself down on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 180 million miles from Earth, and conducted a 16-h...

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

3:35pm, 1st October, 2018

Space

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

An artist’s conception shows Moon Express’ MX-1E spacecraft making its approach to the moon. (Moon Express Illustration) , which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised $2.5 million in bridge financing a...

1:58pm, 11th September, 2018

Space

Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit

An artist’s conception shows SpaceIL’s Sparrow lunar lander on the moon’s surface. (SpaceIL Illustration) is go for launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s due to send a telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous orbit...

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

2:41pm, 8th August, 2018

Space

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support that range from lunar landing capabilities to in-space refueling and space...

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Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Israel’s Beresheet lander crashes on moon, ending privately funded space odyssey

Israeli lander lost during descent to moon, after weeks-long space odyssey

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

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