Blue Ghost Lunar Mission Sticks Its Landing on the Moon
Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start performing its various experiments. The expected landing date is March 2.
Firefly’s ghostly landing proves a scrappy company can shoot for the Moon
The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen engineers in Firefly's mission control room monitored real-time data streaming down from a quarter-million miles away.
Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines ...
Early Sunday morning, Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to successfully land on the moon. The company's Blue ...
Firefly’s lunar landing is NASA’s second CLPS mission. The first took place last year, when Intuitive Machines—another Texas-based private space company—sent its lander to the Moon in February 2024.
The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.
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