How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up https://arstechni.ca/xbdo #lunarlanding #blueorigin #SeanDuffy #Features #artemis #spacex #Space #china #space #NASA
#JatansSpace:
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No, Starship’s latest success doesn’t favor the US over China in landing humans on Luna
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".. the fact is no other system involved in either Artemis or China’s architecture is nearly as complex as Starship."
"Simply put, NASA’s road to the Moon has been inching through Starship."
https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-240/
1.9.2025
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China successfully tested a spacecraft designed for its upcoming lunar missions. The milestone advances its goal of achieving a manned moon landing and developing long-term lunar infrastructure. This marks a crucial step in the nation’s rapidly expanding space ambitions
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic #Moon landing mission by #firefly Aerospace. Here flying over the Moon at ~100km (credit @nasa)
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Tokyo-based private firm ispace's second attempt to land on the moon has failed.
The ispace team said at a press conference that it lost contact with M2 when the craft was 192 metres above the Moon’s surface and descending faster than expected. An attempt to reboot M2 was also unsuccessful. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01751-3 #Space #Moon #ispace #HAKUTO_R #Lunarlanding
Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50+ years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.
Japan’s ispace aims for a moon landing with a science rover and a symbolic red house—proving space is no longer just for superpowers. #LunarLanding #ispace #MoonExploration
https://geekoo.news/japans-resilience-lander-aims-for-historic-touchdown-at-moons-north/
NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture ‘First-of-its-Kind’ Footage of Moon Landing https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/nasa-cameras-on-blue-ghost-capture-first-of-its-kind-footage-of-moon-landing/ #fireflyaerospace #lunarlanding #blueghost #scalpss #Space #moon #NASA
If the instruments of the payload had been able to collect data is unknown. Currently the data of #Athena is been analyzed. However the mission has ended much earlier than expected. Image Credit: www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2 #NASA #Artemis #IntuitiveMachines2 #LunarLanding #Moon #Space #science
Intuitive Machines confirms that Athena has landed 250 meters away from it's planned landing side in a moon crater. The lander fall to the side. Image Credit: www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2 #Athena #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #IntuitiveMachines2 #LunarLanding #Moon #Nokia #Space #science
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NASA and Intuitive Machines have confirmed that Athena stands on the side. Nevertheless it was possible to deploy payload, also the NASA PRIME-1 instrument. Image Credit: www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2 #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #IntuitiveMachines2 #LunarLanding #Moon #Nokia #Space #science
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#Athena has landed at a location on the moon where no man has been before. The correct location of Athena is still under investigation to continue with the mission after knowing the exact location of Athena. #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #IntuitiveMachines2 #LunarLanding #Moon #Nokia #Space #science
Athena has successfully landed on the moon yesterday. It took a while to get confirmation signals and information if Athena stand straight as expected. Athena has landed close to the south pole of the moon. #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #IntuitiveMachines2 #LunarLanding #Moon #Nokia #Space #science
