Firefly is making its first attempt to put a vehicle on the moon, but this mission marks a second try for Ispace, after its first lander crashed and blasted a divot in the lunar surface in 2023.

An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...

SpaceX has successfully completed the 100th launch of a Falcon rocket from pad 39A and sent two landers on their way to the ...

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15).

Ghost Riders in the Sky, the mission for Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander, is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver scientific payloads to ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost mission is bringing along 10 science instruments as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The lander is targeting Mare Crisium, the site of ...

The Firefly team also completed nearly 100 lander leg drop tests on lunar simulant, sand, and concrete to simulate predicted and worst-case scenarios. These drop tests included drops from ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander is set to launch no earlier than 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The lander will be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39A.