When NASA sends a rover or other piece of technology to the moon, there is no guarantee it will work under lunar gravity—an object that weighs 100 pounds on Earth weighs just 16.5 pounds on the ...
"Our GhostRiders captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn." Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way ...
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday ... attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. This image provided by Blue Origin ...
Shortly after Trans Lunar Injection, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured image of Earth with the Moon below in the distance. Firefly Aerospace As well as the image showing our planet ...
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...
A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...
Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle next week, on an uncrewed research flight that will simulate lunar gravity ... to the moon via its Artemis program ...
"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA." Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission ...
The question of whether the Earth's gravitational influence could extend all the way to the Moon. Two hundred years ... field of influence or "gravity well" from which it can be difficult to ...
Blue Ghost captured the Earth image, shown below, during its second engine burn — the first that must be successfully achieved in order to get to the moon, some 239,000 miles away. The ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired ...
One major departure from Blue Origin's past New Shepard flights is the spin maneuver to create the effect of one-sixth Earth's gravity (simulating the gravity of the moon) during the NS-29 mission.