Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver five, NASA-sponsored payloads to the Moon’s south pole in 2029. The mission will […]
BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly)
Firefly Aerospace adds UAE’s Rashid 2 Rover to Blue Ghost mission to the far side of the moon
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 […]
Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft
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 […]
Firefly Aerospace completes 14 days of surface operations on the Moon
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 […]
NASA acquires GPS signals on the Moon
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 […]
Vulcan Wireless assists U.S. return to the Moon after 52 years with record-breaking lunar communications on Blue Ghost Mission 1
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 […]
Firefly Aerospace is “over the Moon” as the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon
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 […]
Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage
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 […]
Trans Lunar Injection completed by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost + imagery captures
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 […]
SpaceX sends Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar landers on mission to the Moon
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 […]