Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander tightened its lunar orbit on Sunday before its inaugural attempt at an uncrewed ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander is set to attempt a high-stakes touchdown on the Moon’s Mare Crisium. If ...
After a long journey through space, a U.S. company is just hours away from attempting a daring lunar touchdown - its ...
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is first up. The company's 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) Blue Ghost lunar lander is on track to touch down on the moon's near side at 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET) Sunday.
The Blue Ghost mission is part of Nasa's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, designed to leverage private sector innovation for lunar exploration.
Blue Ghost has performed nearly perfectly. For the first 25 days, it circled Earth as the company turned on and checked the spacecraft’s systems. It then fired its engine on a four-day journey toward ...