Firefly Aerospace is developing a lunar lander called Blue Ghost and won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in February for Blue Ghost’s first mission to deliver payloads to the moon in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace won a $93,300,000 contract from NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program on 2021-02-04 for the 2023 launch of the Blue Ghost lander carrying NASA payloads.
The Blue Ghost lander contracted to Firefly under the $93,300,000 CLPS award will be launched on another company’s rocket rather than Firefly’s Alpha.
Firefly Aerospace is developing, qualifying, and manufacturing the Blue Ghost lander at its spacecraft integration facilities in Cedar Park, Texas, about 30 minutes north of Austin.
Firefly is developing, qualifying, and manufacturing the Blue Ghost lander at spacecraft integration facilities in Cedar Park, Texas, about 30 minutes north of Austin.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle is providing launch services for the Blue Ghost mission and the company’s Space Utility Vehicle will provide in-space mobility.
Israel Aerospace Industries will support Firefly’s Blue Ghost project to leverage lessons learned from the Beresheet mission, which crashed attempting a lunar landing in April 2019.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 in fulfillment of Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.