Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

But all that has changed since Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed Blue Ghost on the moon on ... Mons Latreille, in the northeast quadrant on the near side.

Will Coogan, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Chief Engineer, confirmed on a mission control live feed the spacecraft had entered lunar gravity. “We’re on the moon,” Coogan declared moments later ...

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Firefly's Blue Ghost made history last week as the first ... landed upright on the lunar surface in a large basin in the northeast of the Earth-facing side of the Moon. Firefly – a start-up ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide ...

Firefly Aerospace released video Tuesday showing the historic touchdown of its Blue Ghost lunar lander ... which is in the northeast quadrant of the face of the moon as seen from the northern ...

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly ... Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down at around 3:35am ET (0835 GMT) near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the ...