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Firefly Aerospace adds UAE’s Rashid 2 Rover to Blue Ghost mission to the far side of the moon

May 27, 2025

Firefly Aerospace has a new agreement with the United Arab Emirates’ Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to deliver the Emirates Lunar Mission’s Rashid 2 Rover to the far side […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Elytra spacecraft (Firefly), Firefly Aerospace, Fleet Space, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Moon, Moon Mission, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), News, Rashid 2 Rover (MBRSC)

Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft

April 7, 2025

Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a contract to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with the company’s Elytra spacecraft in support of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit […]

Filed Under: Agencies, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Defense Information Network, Elytra spacecraft (Firefly), Firefly Aerospace, Government, LEO, Military, Military Agencies, Military Contracts, Military Defense, News, SmallSat, smallsats, U.S. Department of Defense Tagged With: Featured

Firefly Aerospace completes 14 days of surface operations on the Moon

March 17, 2025

All 10 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) instruments successfully operated on the lunar surface and collected their science data during Blue Ghost Mission 1 Firefly Aerospace has met 100 percent […]

Filed Under: Advanced Payloads, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Firefly Aerospace, Moon, Moon Mission, Moon-to-Earth Comms, News, Payloads, Scientific Payloads Tagged With: Featured

NASA acquires GPS signals on the Moon 

March 5, 2025

NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3rd when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals […]

Filed Under: Agencies, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), GNSS, Italian Space Agency (ASI), LuGRE Mission (NASA + ASI), Lunar, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Lunar Rover, Lunar Services, NASA, News

Vulcan Wireless assists U.S. return to the Moon after 52 years with record-breaking lunar communications on Blue Ghost Mission 1

March 3, 2025

Vulcan Wireless assists the United States returning to the Moon after 52 years! Vulcan Wireless played a critical role in the successful lunar landing and operation of Blue Ghost Mission […]

Filed Under: Antennas, Antennas / Terminals, Artemis, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Business Moves, CCSDS, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Cislunar, Commercial, Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program (CLDP), Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Comms, DVB-S2, Firefly Aerospace, Ground Stations, Lunar, Lunar Lander, Milestone, Moon, Orbital, Radios, S-Band, SWaP, Swedish Space Corp., Swedish Space Corp. (SSC), Telemetry, Vulcan, Waveforms, X-Band

Firefly Aerospace is “over the Moon” as the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon

March 2, 2025

Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced its Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down on the Moon’s surface in an upright, stable configuration on the […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Cislunar, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Firefly Aerospace, Ghost Riders in the Sky Mission (Firefly), Imagery, Lunar, Lunar / Moon Contract, Lunar Exploration, Lunar Missions, Moon, NASA, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Test Instruments Tagged With: Featured

Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage

February 26, 2025

Firefly Aerospace is now less than 4 days from landing on the Moon and just released more footage captured during Blue Ghost’s third lunar orbit maneuver on February 24 that […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Engines / Thrusters, Lunar Orbit, Moon, Solar Eclipse, Subsystems Tagged With: Featured

Trans Lunar Injection completed by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost + imagery captures

February 13, 2025

Firefly Aerospace is now four weeks into their first mission to the Moon—Blue Ghost recently completed its Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) to escape Earth’s orbit and is now in transit […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Cislunar, Firefly Aerospace, Imagery, LEO SSO, Lunar, Lunar Missions, Lunar Orbit, Lunar Orbit Insertion (LSI), News, SmallSat, Smallsat Deployment, Smallsat Markets, smallsats

SpaceX sends Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar landers on mission to the Moon

January 15, 2025

On Wednesday, January 15 at 1:11 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also […]

Filed Under: Biological & Scientic Experiments On-Orbit, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Experiments, Firefly Aerospace, ispace, ispace [Japan], Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A (Kennedy Space Center), Lunar Lander, Mission Payloads, Moon, Regolith, Science Experiments, SpaceX Tagged With: Featured

SpaceX to send Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the moon on Wednesday

January 14, 2025

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, January 15 for Falcon 9’s launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) in Florida. Also on board […]

Filed Under: Artemis, BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Firefly Aerospace, ispace, NASA, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Payloads, Space Weather, SpaceX

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