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Firefly Aerospace became the second US company to land on the moon on Sunday with its debut Blue Ghost lander, kicking off a two-week research mission as one of a handful of private firms to reach ...
The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.
The Athena moon lander beamed home a poignant lunar view. Soon after, its mission ended. After performing excellently on its ...
The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.
The Blue Ghost spacecraft has taken its first images of the lunar surface as Firefly Aerospace and NASA celebrate a ...
Firefly Space's Blue Ghost lunar lander marks a historic landing on the surface of the Moon, according to a social media platform X post on NASA's account on Saturday, March 2, 2025. Firefly Space ...
Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a Moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a “fully successful” soft landing. Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is set to land on the Moon, marking the second private lunar landing attempt. The mission, part of NASA’s Artemis programme, carries ten instruments ...
Ray Allensworth, @Firefly_Space Spacecraft Program Director, explains why it would not have been a practical use of resources to stream live from the spacecraft during Blue Ghost's Moon landing.
“We're on the moon,” Mission Control reported, adding the lander was “stable.” A smooth, upright landing makes Firefly — a startup founded a decade ago — the first private outfit to ...
Its payloads include three rovers, a drill to search for ice and the star of the show: a first-of-its-kind hopping drone designed to explore the Moon's rugged terrain. Landing on the Moon presents ...