Kicking up dust and rocks, the Blue Ghost Mission-1's March 2 moon landing marked the start of executing NASA-backed Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) instruments.

The landing attempt came two years after ispace's first lander malfunctioned during the final stages of its descent to the moon, making a similar hard landing. But Hakamada said it was too early ...

The demise of Resilience is reminiscent of ispace’s first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon in April 2023. That mission also ended in a crash landing after the lander ran out of ...

The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will try again in 2027.

The Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon's surface at 3:34 a.m. ET on Sunday, March 2, coming in for a soft landing and touching down safely and upright with its payload of science ...