Firefly Aerospace designed the new cleanroom to support dedicated assembly lines for Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra orbital vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace says its Cedar Park investments will allow Blue Ghost to be templated into a production line capable of supporting multiple lunar missions per year.
Firefly Aerospace’s new cleanroom is designed to support dedicated assembly lines for Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra orbital vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace intends to template its Blue Ghost lunar lander into a production line capable of supporting multiple lunar missions per year.
B1085 has previously supported eight Starlink missions, NASA’s Crew-9 mission, and Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.
Firefly Aerospace’s Cedar Park site is optimized to manufacture multiple Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra orbital transfer vehicles simultaneously.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost architecture is being templated into a standardized production line capable of supporting multiple lunar missions per year.
NASA spent an additional $10 million in September to purchase 120 gigabytes of data from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.
Firefly Aerospace completed the Preliminary Design Review for Blue Ghost Mission 4.
Blue Ghost Mission 4 will go to the Moon’s south pole to collect data on resources, radiation, and the thermal environment.
Blue Ghost Mission 4 is Firefly Aerospace’s fourth lunar mission under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 was Firefly Aerospace’s first successful commercial lunar landing.
Ray Allensworth led Blue Ghost Mission 1 as Firefly Aerospace’s Spacecraft Program Director.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander completed a touchdown on the Moon in March 2025.
The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander was powered by Nammo UK's LEROS 4-ET rocket engine.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can carry up to 240 kilograms.
The Falcon 9 upper stage 2025-010D came from the launch of the Blue Ghost mission 1 and ispace Resilience lunar landers.
Blue Ghost completed a successful Moon landing.
Firefly Aerospace received the Space Achievement Award from the Space Foundation for the successful Moon landing of Blue Ghost.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 will land on the far side of the Moon.