Blue Ghost is in the midst of spending an entire lunar day on the surface of the Moon, or the equivalent of 14 days on Earth.
On its way to the Moon, the spacecraft sent an image of the Earth from space, and beamed home another image after its touchdown on the lunar surface. Now, Firefly has shared an image of the Sun ri ...
This weekend, Firefly Aerospace will attempt to defy the ... Of all the scary things about trying to land on an object more than 200,000 miles away is that you can’t control a lunar spacecraft ...
Literally, figuratively over the moon': Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on lunar surface Lunar landing comes after 45-day trip through space The landing concludes a more-than 2.8 million-mile journey ...
The Space Force last week awarded Firefly Aerospace a nearly $22 million contract to launch a mission aimed at transitioning the service's vision for rapid response capabilities from a demonstration ...
With NASA’s human lunar spaceflight missions on hold, the space agency is looking to companies such as Firefly and Intuitive Machines to conduct science experiments and test technologies that ...
Firefly CEO Jason Kim said the Blue Ghost is the latest example of commercial technology provided by the private sector "really bringing down the cost and affordability of (space) systems." ...
reaching the surface a month and a half after launching atop a SpaceX rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The moonshot by Firefly, an upstart primarily building rockets ...
CEO of Firefly Aerospace, in a statement on Sunday. “Blue Ghost’s successful Moon landing has laid the groundwork for the future of commercial exploration across cislunar space. We’re now ...
(Firefly Aerospace) The Space Force last week awarded Firefly ... to be able to maneuver away from threats like debris or toward objects the U.S. may want to observe more closely.
Acting NASA administrator Janet Petro said at Firefly's landing event that the moon remains part of America's goal to "dominate" space. On Blue Ghost, two onboard instruments will study the lunar ...