From its current location way above Earth, it’s been beaming ... gearing up to continue its journey to the moon, where it will remain in a lunar orbit for 16 days before attempting a landing ...
The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.
A six-day window for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the missions begins early Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), with liftoff scheduled for 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) from Launch Complex-39B at NASA's ...
Since then, the lander has been camped out in Earth orbit, undergoing systems checks and preparing to light its engines for a translunar injection burn, which will propel the probe on a four-day ...
Until that maneuver, however, Blue Ghost has been busy above ... moon, seen for just a moment before the brilliantly bright Earth eclipses the celestial spec as the lander climbs up its orbit.
Danuri lowers lunar altitude to 50 km, extends mission by six months Danuri embarks on a mission extension with a new target altitude of 50 km for enhanced lunar imaging ...