SpaceX launches two lunar landers for US and Japanese …
Jan 15, 2025 · SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there. The two landers rocketed away early Wednesday from Florida, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon. ... It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago.
What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward …
Jan 15, 2025 · Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent Blue Ghost and Resilience — lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and the Tokyo-based company ispace, respectively — into ...
American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon
Jan 15, 2025 · But despite Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based ispace sharing one SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the two missions are taking very different paths and timelines to reach the lunar surface ...
SpaceX rocket carrying private US, Japanese moon landers blasts …
Jan 14, 2025 · A SpaceX rocket lifted off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience from Japan. ... Tokyo-based ispace's first attempt ...
Watch SpaceX launch 2 private moon landers on a single rocket
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the robotic Blue Ghost and Resilience landers — built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based ispace, respectively — is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space ...
Missions: Earth - SpaceX
Experience Earth’s wonders from space—from the Great Barrier Reef, Himalayas, Amazon River, and Giza’s Pyramids by day, to the glow of city lights, lightning storms, and the Aurora Borealis by night. Dragon fully orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, making a …
Japan billionaire Maezawa cancels moon trip due to uncertainty …
Jun 1, 2024 · TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Saturday canceled his planned flight around the moon on a SpaceX vehicle because of uncertainty about when it may be possible. The tycoon in 2018 launched plans for the lunar flyby voyage.
A Japanese company has fired a rocket carrying a lunar rover to …
Dec 11, 2022 · A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates' first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan.
SpaceX now targeting Dec. 11 for launch of Japanese moon …
Dec 7, 2022 · SpaceX is now targeting Sunday (Dec. 11) for the launch of a private Japanese moon lander after a series of delays. If all goes according to plan, a Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Tokyo-based...
Japan becomes first in Asia to get Starlink connection - UPI
Oct 11, 2022 · Japan on Tuesday became the first country in Asia to receive Internet access from the Starlink satellite system from the SpaceX company controlled by Tesla founder Elon Musk.