March marked a milestone in private space exploration as Texas-based Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first robotic ...

Its payloads were able to collect some data in cislunar space before the lander reentered ... including Blue Ghost 1, to see how the plumes from rocket engines affect the lunar surface during ...

To land Blue Ghost on the moon, Firefly Aerospace laid out 14 major mission milestones from Earth to the lunar surface. To ...

"Blue Ghost caught her first look at the solar eclipse from the Moon around 12:30 am CDT on March 14 from our landing site in ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 lander is enabled by Rocket Lab’s MAX Flight and MAX Ground Data Software suite, a modular and ...

LONG BEACH, Calif., March 03, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, celebrated the ...

Kyle Andringa, Rocket Lab’s Senior Director Space Systems Software, commented: “Congratulations to the Firefly team for the successful landing of the Blue Ghost 1 mission, a remarkable ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot ... Launched in mid-January from Florida, the ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has already made history by tracking ... NASA hopes to use the collected data to better understand space weather and cosmic forces affecting Earth.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit ... the lander carried 10 experiments to the moon for NASA. The space agency paid $101 million for the delivery, plus $44 million ...

Firefly Aerospace shared a final message from Blue Ghost as the lander's lunar mission came to a close on Sunday.