Offering rideshare opportunities and dedicated missions, Blue Ghost can deliver and host payloads anywhere on the lunar surface. When paired with Firefly’s medium launch and orbital vehicles, Blue Ghost supports end-to-end cislunar services from Earth to the Moon and beyond.

Cedar Park, Texas, January 15, 2025 – Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and completed on-orbit commissioning.

2 days ago · Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit approximately 6,700 km above the planet on January 23, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace. January 23, 2025: Week 1 Mission Operations Update. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander is one week into our road trip to the Moon!

Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15, 2025.As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission aims to deliver ten scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future human exploration of the Moon under the broader Artemis program.The Blue Ghost lunar lander, developed and tested ...

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, or simply Blue Ghost, is a class of lunar landers designed and manufactured by Firefly Aerospace (Firefly). Firefly plans to operate Blue Ghost landers to deliver small payloads to the surface of the Moon.

1 day ago · Credit: Firefly Aerospace. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has taken a significant leap toward the Moon, with its successful second engine burn positioning the spacecraft for lunar orbit. NASA ’s science and technology instruments aboard Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 are making steady progress toward the Moon. After spending nearly two ...

2 days ago · Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander has snapped its first photos of its distant target. On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Firefly’s Blue Ghost continues its journey to the Moon carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments. Four days into the mission, the lunar lander completed its first main engine burn. This milestone is the first of several maneuvers that will position the lander in a trajectory towards the Moon.

Oct 4, 2023 · Firefly Aerospace completes development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander's structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for our first lunar mission in 2024 as part of NASA’s CLPS...

Jan 15, 2025 · Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO 19D) is a lunar lander designed to deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface. It launched on 15 January 2025. The objectives of the mission are to investigate heat flow from the lunar interior, plume-surface …