Firefly Aerospace Announces New Lunar Imaging Service on its Elytra Spacecraft
Cedar Park, Texas, June 18, 2025 – Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced a new lunar imaging service, named Ocula, offered through Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicles as early as 2026. Ocula is enabled by high-resolution telescopes from the Lawrence…
Sierra Space Wins $3.6M NASA Lunar Logistics Contract
Sierra Space secured a one-year, $3.6M NASA contract to study how its inflatable space station technology could provide logistical infrastructure for future lunar bases. The contract—part of NASA’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix R set of studies—tasks Sierra Space with examining how it…
Johns Hopkins APL Develops Engineering Guide for Lunar Explorers
Lunar experts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created a new technical resource to guide technology developers who are designing systems to withstand the rigors of the Moon’s surface. A suite of videos, titled Lunar…
Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments Cedar Park, Texas, March 2, 2025 – Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced its Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down on…
JAOPS Will Operate the First Japanese Privately Funded Rover to the Moon, Intuitive Machines Prepares for Historic Launch
TOKYO, JP / February 25, 2025 / Dymon announced that the YAOKI rover is loaded aboard the Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena and is ready to be operated by JAOPS once landed on the Moon. The mission, scheduled to deploy…
Thales Alenia Space signs contract with ESA to develop the Argonaut Lunar Lander for cargo delivery
The lander will fly to the Moon and land on its surface assuring the European autonomous access to the Moon Cannes, January 30th, 2025 – Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with…
NASA Invests in Artemis Studies to Support Long-Term Lunar Exploration
NASA awarded new study contracts Thursday to help support life and work on the lunar surface. As part of the agency’s blueprint for deep space exploration to support the Artemis campaign, nine American companies in seven states are receiving awards. The…
ESRIC Start-up Support Programme – Space Exploration and Lunar Prospecting
The Moon is viewed as a critical and strategic outpost for space exploration. With its proximity to Earth, it offers unique opportunities for developing In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) capabilities. To enhance the development of technological enablers that will trigger operational…
Redwire Awarded Contract by European Space Agency to Develop Robotic Arm Prototype for Argonaut Lunar Lander to Support International Lunar Exploration
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 22, 2024) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a robotic…