The data buy encompasses images captured by Blue Ghost during its 45-day transit to the Moon and more than 14 days of surface operations.
During Blue Ghost operations in the Moon’s Mare Crisium, temperatures peaked at 230°F during lunar noon.
The Blue Ghost mission survived extreme temperature variations that exceeded Firefly's thermal models.
The data buy includes communications data and transmit speeds from Blue Ghost’s S-band and X-band antennas.
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is the first commercial mission to successfully land on the Moon.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster previously launched Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, and four Starlink missions.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Moon lander, part of NASA’s CLPS program, received the first terrestrial navigation signal fixes at the Moon.
Firefly's Blue Ghost lander launched on January 15, 2025, aiming to descend in Mare Crisium carrying NASA instruments.
Firefly's Blue Ghost lander will use PlanetVac soil sampling technology partially funded by The Planetary Society.
India’s Chandrayaan 3 began its descent from 30 kilometers altitude, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost began from 20 kilometers altitude, and JAXA’s SLIM began from 15 kilometers altitude.
ispace plans to begin RESILIENCE's descent to the lunar surface from its current circular orbit at approximately 100 kilometers altitude, which is higher than Chandrayaan-3's 30-kilometer and Firefly's Blue Ghost 20-kilometer descent start altitudes.
Blue Ghost 2 will carry a commercial seismometer from Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies.
Firefly and the UAE space agency MBRSC selected Firefly’s second Blue Ghost lander to carry the UAE’s second Rashid rover to the Moon.
The Fleet Space Technologies seismometer on Blue Ghost 2 will operate by tapping into lander-provided power and communications services.
The Blue Ghost lander will attempt a touchdown on the Moon’s farside.
Firefly aims to deliver an orbiter and surface payloads to the Moon in 2026 with Blue Ghost 2.
The SPIDER seismometer might provide hints of resources such as water ice depending on Blue Ghost 2’s chosen landing site.
The second SCALPPS payload flew on Firefly’s first Moon lander Blue Ghost earlier this year and captured close-up images of the lunar surface while thruster plumes kicked up regolith.
Blue Ghost 2 will use an orbital transfer stage called Elytra Dark to help deliver the 280-kilogram Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft for ESA to lunar orbit.
The SPIDER seismometer on Blue Ghost 2 is part of a global effort to study Moonquakes and to provide insights into the local crust and subsurface.