Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One (GM1) team has selected Agile Space Industries for Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters and Frontier Aerospace for axial engines for their Griffin lunar lander.

One of two engines powering a Japanese moon lander during its descent to the lunar surface Jan. 19 suffered a malfunction of some sort just 160 feet above the lunar surface that sharply reduced its ...

A lunar-lander engine technology project has entered its second phase following 900s of successful tests of a demonstrator system. The first demonstrator for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's ...

A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is ...

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) has successfully demonstrated critical capabilities required for NASA’s Altair lunar lander. The engine performed with stable ...

Impulse Space laid out an ambitious plan Tuesday to use its tech to haul tons of cargo to the moon as early as 2028, aiming to fill what it sees as a gap in today’s market for mid-sized surface ...

Rob Morehead snaked a camera on a cable up the rocket engine’s nozzle looking for anomalies caused during the combustion of supercold liquid oxygen and liquid methane. He ran his fingers along the ...

The world is getting ready for next year's launch of the first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon. It's a limited-scope one, but if all goes well, it will open the doors later in 2025 to Artemis III, ...

Next up is lunar orbit insertion, the "largest challenge to date." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The voyaging Odysseus remains ...

The Sciaky engine component was included in the IM-1 lander engine this past February. CHICAGO, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — What do you do when you’re the only company on the planet to have printed ...