After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
A Lunar Lander’s Busy Day: Eclipse Photos and Rock Collecting
The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near ...
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SpaceX Stands Behind Its Ambitious Lunar Timeline
Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...
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 ...
Lunar far side samples bolster theory that the moon was once covered in magma
A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...
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 ...
The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms
New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.
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These Space Companies Compete for Lucrative NASA Contracts—They Also Support Each Other
Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...
Heliospace Hardware Successfully Deploys on the Lunar Surface
Heliospace sensors and booms deploy aboard the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS ...
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NASA’s “Blue Ghost” Lunar Lander Captures New Close-Up Images of the Moon’s Surface
The first images of lunar lander engine thruster stirring up moon dust were captured during the successful Blue Ghost descent ...
SwRI-led sounder instrument deploys across lunar surface
Just hours after touching down on the surface of the moon on March 2nd aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander, the ...
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Watch moon dust fly as private Blue Ghost lunar lander touches down (video)
"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...