Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA mock-up image of the Lunar Trailblazer seen near the moon. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on ...

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer. NASA lost a lunar spacecraft one day after launch. A new report details what went ...

NASA has given up trying to reestablish contact with a small spacecraft that launched in February to map lunar water. The Lunar Trailblazer hitched a ride on the second Intuitive Machines robotic ...

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Just a day after NASA launched its Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft on a multi-month, ultra-efficient journey to the Moon, it went dark. NASA couldn't communicate with it, despite having received earlier ...

After the fire and fury of liftoff, when a spacecraft is sailing silently through space, you could be forgiven for thinking the hard part of the mission is over. After all, riding what’s essentially a ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was intended to orbit the moon to map the concentrations and form of water. Credit: Lockheed Martin AUSTIN, Texas — NASA has yet to restore communications with a ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which may ...

On February 26, 2025, a NASA probe called Lunar Trailblazer lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its mission was to map the water on the moon. But a day after launch, mission managers lost ...