Lunar Lander
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Astrobotic Showcases Griffin-1 Lunar Lander Ahead of Environmental Testing
Astrobotic today unveiled its Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1) lunar lander, recently designated by NASA as Moon Base II, during a visit by NASA representatives, government officials, and industry partners at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh. The spacecraft is completing final integration activities and is scheduled to launch in late 2026.Griffin-1 is being developed as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload…
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NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions
Editor’s note: Release was updated May 27, 2026, to provide additional details on the crewed lunar terrain vehicles. During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch timeframes and upcoming milestones for…
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Blue Origin Moon Lander Completes Testing at NASA Vacuum Chamber
Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by Blue Origin as a commercial demonstration mission to advance Human Landing System capabilities in support of NASA’s Artemis program. The tests in Chamber A represent a public-private partnership model, with Blue Origin conducting work through a reimbursable Space Act Agreement. Endurance will demonstrate precision landing, cryogenic propulsion, and…
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NASA 2026 Human Lander Challenge
NASA’s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate’s (ESDMD’s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development areas for human landing systems (HLS). Landers are used to safely ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface as part of the mission architecture for NASA’s Artemis campaign. Through this challenge, college…
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Tiny, Mighty, Moon-bound: CubeRover Patch & Merch HERE!
SHOP NOWCelebrate CubeRover with fun merch for humans big, small, and even furry. Posters, totes, tees, notebooks…it’s all here and ready for liftoff. 🚀🐾 Snag your favorites and bring a bit of lunar adventure down to Earth. LATEST CUBEROVER NEWS! Astrobotic’s CubeRover-1 lunar rover successfully completed its acceptance test campaign and has been deemed ready for flight to the lunar south…
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Astrobotic Tech Passes Critical Tests for Safe Moon Landings
Astrobotic completed a robust terrestrial flight test campaign for their suite of lunar landing Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) technologies, vital for the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) phase of missions to the Moon. The company’s Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN), and Hazard Detection and Avoidance (HD&A) systems were verified to accurately detect and avoid surface hazards, like rocks and small…
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NASA Langley’s Legacy of Landing
Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA’s Langley Research Center has been at the heart of the entry, descent and landing (EDL) research that enables our exploration. Today, NASA Langley’s legacy of landing continues at the…
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Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset
This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. SCALPSS was taking images every 10 minutes during…
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NASA Science Continues After Firefly’s First Moon Mission Concludes
After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions. As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered 10 NASA science and…
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Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; these instruments will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunar day, or about 14 Earth days. The successful Moon delivery…
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