Spacecraft beams back stunning moon video before ambitious landing
The 6.6-foot-tall lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of instruments and experiments for the space agency as NASA prepares to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This includes radiation-tolerant computing tests and sampling of the lunar regolith.
Focus: Moon, planetary research, spaceflight With a fully automated, picture-perfect landing, the Blue Ghost mission touched down on the morning of 2 March 2025 Central European Time (CET) in ...
Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.
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'We're on the moon!' Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASAFirefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft made history today (March 2), becoming just the second private vehicle ever to soft ...
Blue Ghost's landing site is near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille on the moon's Earth-facing side. The region is located within Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide basin in the northeast ...
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