Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.
"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would bring the robotic mission to an end.
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, as seen from the moon ...
Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Before we get too ahead of ...
The Blue Ghost spacecraft has taken its first images of the lunar surface as Firefly Aerospace and NASA celebrate a successful moon landing.
In addition to these payloads, Texas-based Firefly performed some work of its own on the Moon. Blue Ghost captured a total solar eclipse from the Moon on March 14, while Earth simultaneously ...
A week on, and a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has just released first-of-its-kind footage of a lunar ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander made the most of its last few hours of life on the moon. "These are the first high-definition images taken of the sun going down and then going into ...
Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message from the moon’s ... One of those came March 2, when the robotic craft built by Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial ...