3 days agoWith a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST Sunday, March 2, to land their BlueGhost lunar lander on the Moon. BlueGhost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, in the northeast quadrant on the near side of the Moon, as part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload ...
Watch Firefly Aerospace's BlueGhost lunar lander lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX and Firefly Aerosp...
In this episode, we explore Firefly Aerospace's ambitious lunar lander mission, BlueGhost. Learn how it aims to deliver payloads to the Moon, support scient...
2 days agoBlueGhost 1 launched Jan. 15 on a Falcon 9, sharing the launch with the Resilience lunar lander from Japanese company ispace. Resilience, the company's second lander mission, performed a lunar ...
Jan 14, 2025The Firefly Aerospace BlueGhost Lander begins its historic Moon mission accompanied by Hakuto-R M2 Resilience. With the help of NASA and SpaceX, the team wi...
5 days agoThe mission, officially known as BlueGhostMission 1 or "Ghost Riders in the Sky," is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program and supports the Artemis campaign, which aims to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon. Currently, BlueGhost is on its way to the moon after spending 25 days in Earth orbit.
Jan 7, 2025From liftoff to landing, here's the rundown of BlueGhost's 60-day lunar mission, including 45 days traveling to the Moon and 14 days of surface operations. With 17 success milestones along the way, our #GhostRiders will collect critical data for our @NASA payloads and future missions as we pave the way for a lasting lunar presence.
Mission To The space station. On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress. ...
Jan 8, 2025Near the Moon's eastern limb lies Mare Crisium — the Sea of Crises — a low basalt plain embayed by rugged mountains. Carved by a colossal impact some 3.9 billion years ago, the 460-mile-wide (740 kilometers) mare appears largely flat and featureless. But lingering whispers of a volcanic past are everywhere, from its ubiquitous darkness to craters flooded and semi-obliterated by ancient ...