History-making Blue Ghost lunar lander sends one last message from the moon
Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...
Lunar Lander Photographs a ‘Diamond Ring’ During Solar Eclipse on the Moon
Firefly's Blue Ghost witnessed Earth blocking out the Sun from its point of view on the Moon, while we experienced a lunar ...
What did the eclipse look like from the moon's surface? See photos taken by lunar lander
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander nails lunar mission
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
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Private lunar lander may have fallen over while landing near Moon’s south pole
A privately owned lunar lander has touched down on the Moon with ... meant to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing site in search of frozen water. To lower costs even more ...
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History-making Blue Ghost lunar lander sends one last message from the moon
Blue Ghost, a four-legged robotic lander roughly the size of a small car, spent two weeks operating on the moon’s near-side. The landing site was close to an ancient volcanic feature called Mons ...
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Ill-Fated Moon Lander Unexpectedly Woke Up and Sent One Last Message
The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted landing site. Less than a day after its touchdown, Athena was ...
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost falls silent on the Moon after two-week mission
The first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful Moon mission has fallen silent. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent at the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...