Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
Blue Ghost One, a Cedar Park-built lunar lander, is orbiting Earth and will eventually land on the Moon to conduct experiments as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
RAC is Aegis’ first payload to the moon’s surface, and it will operate for 14 days. For Stephanie Murphy, who took over the ...
Firefly Aerospace has developed its first lunar lander ... “These instruments will study geologic processes and lunar regolith, test solar cells, and characterize the neutron radiation ...
Firefly Aerospace launches Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a 45-day journey to conduct scientific ...
This is Firefly Aerospace’s first mission ... We further built a 1-acre moonscape at our Rocket Ranch in Texas to test our terrain-relative navigation and hazard avoidance system on a heavy ...
Credit: Firefly Aerospace The instrument about which NASA released an update, known as the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), is designed to demonstrate and test satellite-based position ...