Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Is on the Moon. Here’s What to Expect Next
Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Before we get too ahead of ourselves, however, we’ve got the ongoing mission to attend to.
Blue Ghost Lunar Mission Sticks Its Landing on the Moon
Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start performing its various experiments. The expected landing date is March 2.
With the arrival of the Blue Ghost lander on the moon, the spacecraft has taken its first images from the lunar surface.
Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.
Cameras built by scientists and researchers at NASA Langley are headed to the moon. At about 3:45 a.m. Sunday, aerospace firm ...
This geophysicist will be watching anxiously as his groundbreaking experiment careens toward the lunar surface aboard Firefly ...
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