Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...
Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an eclipse from the moon.
While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early ... In 1967, NASA’s Surveyor 3 lander, which had been sent to gather data in preparation for the Apollo missions, captured ...
The next lunar ... lander will get off the ground as early as Wednesday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon ...
A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s Moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the US had not landed on the Moon since Apollo ...
The last time NASA collected data on the heat emerging from the moon's interior was when the space agency still sent astronauts on Apollo missions. The lunar ... Firefly's Blue Ghost lander ...