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Firefly's Blue Ghost lander touched down on the Moon on March 2 as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Firefly Aerospace received $8.2 million to fund the expansion of a spacecraft development facility.
Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium on the Moon on March 2, 2025.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 landing was planned for around 2:30 am.
Blue Ghost 1 is a lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace.
NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro used the word "dominate" twice when discussing U.S. activities on the Moon during Firefly’s livestream.
Blue Ghost 1 landing was described as remarkably drama-free by Ray Allensworth, spacecraft program director at Firefly.
Firefly has two additional CLPS landing missions contracted by NASA.
Blue Ghost carries 10 NASA payloads that Firefly will operate until the end of the local lunar day on March 16.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spacecraft completed a 12-minute descent from a 20-kilometer altitude point to achieve a soft, upright touchdown on the Moon in Mare Crisium on March 2 at 8:34 UTC.
Firefly CEO Jason Kim stated the Blue Ghost 1 team ‘nailed it’ with the lunar landing.
Firefly received a $101.5 million task order from NASA for the delivery and operations of payloads on Blue Ghost 1.
Firefly Aerospace won a CLPS award of $179.6 million for Blue Ghost 3.
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.
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 deployed a high-bandwidth X-band communications antenna on Blue Ghost shortly after landing.
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 Aerospace claims to be the first commercial company to achieve a fully successful soft landing on the Moon.
Firefly qualified Blue Ghost’s propulsion system beyond the total firing duration expected on the mission.
ispace and Firefly have clearly laid out the milestones and success criteria of their respective missions.