1. fireflyspace.com

    Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captured the Moon in the distance and Earth on the horizon from its top deck, showing the LEXI payload and X-band antenna. ... January 15, 2025: Launch Vehicle Separation. Blue Ghost was deployed in a highly elliptical Earth orbit at 2:17 a.m. EST. The Firefly team expects to acquire signal to the lander ...
  2. fireflyspace.com

    Jan 15, 2025Following launch vehicle separation, Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander acquired signal and completed on-orbit commissioning. Cedar Park, Texas, January 15, 2025 - Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and completed on-orbit commissioning.
  3. blogs.nasa.gov

    3 days agoAfter about a month in transit to the Moon, Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully completed a four-minute lunar orbit insertion burn Thursday - the longest and most challenging burn conducted to date by the lander's main engine and reaction control system thrusters. ... This blog will be a source of information on Artemis launch ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15, 2025.As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission aims to deliver ten scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future human exploration of the Moon under the broader Artemis program.The Blue Ghost lunar lander, developed and tested ...
  5. fireflyspace.com

    Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, 2025. ... were built using many of the same flight-proven technologies common to all of Firefly's launch and orbital vehicles, enabling lower costs and improved reliability ...
  6. 3 days agoWith a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, a plain in the northeast quadrant on the near side of the Moon, as part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar ...
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    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.The first Blue Ghost mission was launched at 1:11 a.m. EST (06:11 UTC) on January 15, 2025.
  8. globenewswire.com

    Jan 15, 2025Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, 2025.
  9. Jan 10, 2025After the launch, Firefly's Blue Ghost lander will spend approximately 45 days in transit to the Moon before landing on the lunar surface in early March. The lander will carry 10 NASA science investigations to further our understanding of the Moon's environment and help prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface, as part of the ...
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