Firefly operated most of the ten NASA payloads onboard Blue Ghost within half a lunar day after its local morning landing.
Firefly's Blue Ghost lander touched down on the Moon on March 2 as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Blue Ghost's landing precision (approximately 118 meters from target) is less precise than JAXA's SLIM (about 55 meters from target) and CNSA's Chang'e 3 (about 90 meters from target).
NASA considers Firefly's Blue Ghost the only objective and nominal success among the four CLPS missions flown thus far.
Blue Ghost's targeted landing coordinates were 18.560°N, 61.807°E and its circular landing ellipse diameter was 100 meters.
Blue Ghost landed about 118 meters away from its target landing site in Mare Crisium.
Blue Ghost is scheduled to conduct ten experiments over the course of two weeks to gather data about the Moon.
The Blue Ghost mission has brought ten scientific and technical instruments to the lunar surface under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
The successful landing of Blue Ghost marks the first time a private company has landed a robotic spacecraft on the Moon.
Blue Ghost will analyze and collect samples of lunar regolith, which poses potential hazards for equipment and astronauts.
Blue Ghost traveled for about 45 days to reach the Moon after its launch on January 15.
On March 16, 2025, Blue Ghost will capture images of the sunset on the Moon.
Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium on the Moon on March 2, 2025.
On March 14, 2025, Blue Ghost will observe a total solar eclipse from the Moon.
Over the past two years, U.S. lunar surface mission attempts included one failure by Astrobotic Peregrine, one partial success by Intuitive Machines IM-1, and one successful landing by Firefly Blue Ghost.
Firefly Aerospace won a CLPS award of $179.6 million for Blue Ghost 3.
Firefly deployed a high-bandwidth X-band communications antenna on Blue Ghost shortly after landing.
Blue Ghost 2 is planned to launch in 2026 aiming for the far side of the Moon.
Firefly reported that Blue Ghost touched down within its 100-meter landing target with an intended landing ellipse centered at 18.56°N, 61.81°E.
Firefly constructed a one-acre moonscape test range on Earth and used a heavy-lift drone to test Blue Ghost’s vision-based hazard-avoidance and terrain-relative navigation.