Firefly’s picture-perfect Moon landing shows the way for lunar exploration
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.
Lunar Lander Captures First High-Definition Video of a Sunset on the Moon
Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes of data back to Earth. This was the longest commercial mission on the Moon to date, and the first of a series of landers designed to touch down on the lunar surface on a yearly basis.
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...
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Watch Blue Ghost Absolutely Nail Its Recent Moon Landing In "First-Of-Its-Kind" FootageBlue Ghost touched down on the Moon two weeks ago – and beamed back some stunning footage of its soft landing in never-before ...
"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...
This photo provided by NASA shows the Intuitive Machines' Athena lander approaching the surface of the moon on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Credit: AP This was the second landing attempt for ...
Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...
Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...
To land Blue Ghost on the moon, Firefly Aerospace laid out 14 major mission milestones from Earth to the lunar surface. To land your own Blue Ghost, you will need to follow 42 steps.
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Unimatic’s Retro-Futuristic Space Watch Aims to Go Back to the MoonUnimatic and Massena LAB collaborated on a watch inspired by NASA's upcoming mission to put astronauts back on the lunar ...
The two moon landings this week are part of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program meant to get experiments to the surface and jumpstart business. NASA officials said before the landing ...
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