Blue Ghost

Blue Ghost environmental testing was completed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in mid-October 2024.

Blue Ghost Mission 3 has capacity for additional customers to use Elytra for orbital transfer and long-haul communications in cislunar space and to use Blue Ghost for lunar surface delivery and operations.

The data buy includes communications data and transmit speeds from Blue Ghost’s S-band and X-band antennas.

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 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 was awarded a $93,300,000 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver 10 science payloads to the surface of the Moon in 2023 using the Blue Ghost lunar lander.

Firefly Aerospace was awarded a $93,300,000 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver 10 science payloads to the surface of the Moon in 2023 using its Blue Ghost lunar lander.

Firefly completed the Blue Ghost critical design review in preparation for a 2023 mission to deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface for NASA.

The Blue Ghost lunar mission is one of three task orders Firefly won under NASA CLPS that together account for more than $230,000,000 in awards.

NASA plans to launch IM-2 and Blue Ghost missions as part of the CLPS program this year.

Following JPL testing, Blue Ghost will ship to Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled for 2024-10-01.

Blue Ghost is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a six-day window that opens no earlier than mid-January 2025.

Blue Ghost is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a six-day window that opens no earlier than mid-January 2025.

Blue Ghost’s NASA CLPS payloads include a camera to image the dust plume created during descent and a payload designed to test whether GPS and Galileo navigation signals can be used at the moon.