A space company with a lander expected to reach the moon in a few months is expanding its local presence. Ispace, a Japanese company with a Centennial office hosting more than 100 employees ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

Since the Blue Ghost also had the iSpace Resilience lander as a rideshare ... Intuitive Machines IM-2 Athena touched down on the moon’s Mons Mouton region of the lunar south pole on Thursday.

like Intuitive Machines which has completed soft landings on the moon twice but had both its landers fall over, or ispace which has failed at one lunar landing but has another landing attempt ...

Now, Blue Ghost carries the torch for moon missions, though it will hopefully be joined by the Japanese Resilience spacecraft from ispace in June. In the meantime, Blue Ghost has been busy working ...

A Japanese company's lunar lander shared the SpaceX rocket ride, but took an even longer route to get to the moon. That lander from ispace is targeting an early June touchdown. Another Texas ...

Several commercial companies — including US-based Astrobotic Technology, Japan-based Ispace and Israeli company SpaceIL — previously tried and failed to soft-land vehicles on the moon.