The Blue Ghost lander is designed for a soft landing on the lunar surface and a 60-day operational mission. It will deliver 94 kilograms (207 lb) of payloads to Mare Crisium , a 500-kilometer-wide (310 mi) lunar basin.

2 days ago · Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured an Earth selfie. Image is looking down the side of the lander, showing the top of Blue Ghost’s thrusters with Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) probes on both sides.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is flying annual missions to the Moon with payload services customized to the technology and exploration goals of each customer. Offering rideshare opportunities and dedicated missions, Blue Ghost can deliver and host payloads anywhere on …

2 days ago · Blue Ghost is flying to the moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which is pairing commercially developed landers with NASA scientific payloads for studying the moon.

1 day ago · This is a positive sign that LMS will be able to measure the Moon’s magnetic and electrical fields, shedding light on the Moon’s interior temperature and composition on the lunar surface. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured an Earth selfie that looks down the side of the lander and shows the top of Blue Ghost’s thrusters with ...

Blue Ghost is set to land in Mare Crisium on March 2 and operate payloads for a complete lunar day (about 14 Earth days). On March 14, Firefly expects to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the Moon’s horizon.

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, or simply Blue Ghost, is a class of lunar landers designed and manufactured by Firefly Aerospace. Firefly plans to operate Blue Ghost landers to deliver small payloads to the surface of the Moon.

Jan 15, 2025 · Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO 19D) is a lunar lander designed to deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface. It launched on 15 January 2025. The objectives of the mission are to investigate heat flow from the lunar interior, plume-surface …

Dec 19, 2024 · Blue Ghost will spend another 16 days in lunar orbit, phasing into a descent trajectory to land on the surface of the moon for the remaining two weeks of the mission. The lander will touch...

Jan 27, 2025 · An image taken from the top deck of Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander of the Moon in the distance. Credit: Firefly Aerospace . NASA’s science and technology instruments aboard Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 are a step closer to the Moon. After almost two weeks in Earth orbit, Firefly announced Thursday that Blue Ghost successfully ...