The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, as seen from the moon ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Late last week, Blue Ghost observed a total solar eclipse from the moon — a total lunar eclipse as seen from ... Only five countries — the United States, Russia, China, India and Japan — have achieved ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

2025 video released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its third lunar orbit, showing the far side of the Moon and a top-down view of Blue Ghost. AFP Moon exploration by ...

Also eyeing the moon are U.S.-aligned Japan and India, which made its first soft lunar landing in 2023. Firefly has a $101 million contract for the Blue Ghost mission from NASA’s Commercial ...

Blue Ghost, however, survived landing and completed “100 percent of its mission objectives,” per Firefly. That makes the mission—which deployed 10 NASA payloads, beamed more than 119 gigabytes of data ...

Now, Blue Ghost carries the torch for moon missions, though it will hopefully be joined by the Japanese Resilience spacecraft from ispace in June. In the meantime, Blue Ghost has been busy working ...