Firefly Aerospace plans to land its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon in 2024.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander arrived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for environmental testing ahead of a launch planned for the fourth quarter of 2024.
Blue Ghost will deploy and operate its 10 integrated instruments for one lunar day (14 Earth days) and for more than 5 hours into the lunar night.
Following JPL testing, Blue Ghost will ship to Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled for 2024-10-01.
Firefly Aerospace is completing final readiness milestones for its first Blue Ghost lunar mission to the Moon scheduled to launch in 2024-10-01.
NASA plans to launch IM-2 and Blue Ghost missions as part of the CLPS program this year.
Fleet Space Technologies plans to deliver lunar seismic technology to the Moon in 2026 onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
A variant of Fleet’s Exosphere technology called SPIDER will be deployed on the Moon by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander in 2026 to search for water ice deposits and deliver subsurface insight about the lunar regolith.
The geophysical device that Fleet will deploy on the Moon via Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander is called the Seismic Payload for Interplanetary Discovery, Exploration and Research (SPIDER).
Firefly completed the preliminary design review for Blue Ghost Mission 2 less than six months after receiving its NASA CLPS award.
Firefly completed the preliminary design review for Blue Ghost Mission 2 less than six months after receiving its NASA CLPS award.
Firefly Aerospace completed the primary structure for its Blue Ghost lander, which is slated to launch in 2024.
Firefly Aerospace completed development and assembly of the Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems for its first lunar mission slated to land on the Moon in 2024 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
Firefly Aerospace is ramping up Blue Ghost Mission 2, which will first deploy a satellite to lunar orbit and then deliver multiple payloads to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
The Blue Ghost lunar mission is one of three task orders Firefly won under NASA CLPS that together account for more than $230,000,000 in awards.
Firefly Aerospace is ramping up for Blue Ghost Mission 2, which will first deploy a satellite to lunar orbit and then deliver multiple payloads to the Moon’s far side in 2026.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 payloads include demonstrations of regolith sample collection, Global Navigation Satellite System abilities, radiation‑tolerant computing, and lunar dust mitigation to support NASA’s goal of building a sustainable lunar presence.
Firefly Aerospace completed development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems in October 2023.
Firefly is ramping up for Blue Ghost Mission 2 to deploy a satellite to lunar orbit and then deliver multiple payloads to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
Firefly Aerospace was awarded an $18,000,000 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit as part of Blue Ghost Mission 2.