Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander successfully performed a smooth, upright landing, making the Texas-based company the first private contractor to put a spacecraft on the moon without ...

Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit around the moon last week, ending a four-day transit from Earth and starting to gear up for a lunar touchdown. In the lead-up to that ...

In the early hours of March 2, Blue Ghost fired its engine to drop it out of orbit, falling toward the moon. Just over an hour later, it was on the surface in Mare Crisium, a lava plain inside an ...

On March 2, Blue Ghost made its landing at the moon's Mare Crisium within its 100-meter target, where it will begin surface operations over 14 days including subsurface drilling, X-ray imaging and ...

The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect landing 10 days ago, since when it has been deploying its payloads onto the lunar surface and collecting science data.