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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 awarded million$$$ NASA contract for Moon delivery to Gruithuisen Domes

December 18, 2024

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has been awarded an approximately $179.6 million NASA contract to deliver and operate six NASA instruments in the Gruithuisen Domes on the Moon’s near side in 2028. […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Business Moves, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Contracts, Elytra Dark Orbital Vehicle (Firefly), Firefly Aerospace, Moon, Moon Mission, NASA, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), News

NASA ends VIPER project, continues Moon exploration

July 17, 2024

Following a comprehensive internal review, NASA announced Wednesday its intent to discontinue development of its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. NASA stated cost increases, delays to the launch […]

Filed Under: Artemis, Astrobotic, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Crewed Mission, Crewed Spacecraft, Griffin Lander [Astrobotic], Lunar Rover, Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), Moon, NASA, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), Prime, Prime launch vehicle, Space Resources Tagged With: Featured

NASA tech contributes to soft Moon landing, agency science underway

February 25, 2024

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Hardware, IM-1 Lunar Mission [Intuitive Machines], Intuitive Machines, Lunar Lander, Moon, NASA, Nova-C Lundar Lander (Intuitive Machines), Space-Based Hardware

NASA invites public to send names to the moon aboard Artemis Robotic Moon Rover

January 8, 2024

NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER — short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. […]

Filed Under: Artemis, Batteries, Cape Canaveral SFS, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Europa Clipper Mission, Falcon Heavy, Honeybee Robotics, Kennedy Space Center, Mars, Moon, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), Solar Panels, SpaceX Tagged With: Featured

Acoustic Research Systems to provide direct field acoustic testing services for VIPER mission

November 9, 2023

The Acoustic Research Systems (ARS) NEUTRON system will put NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) through a series of extremely high-power acoustic tests at NASA’s Johnson Space Center prior […]

Filed Under: Acoustic Research Systems, Astrobotic, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Griffin Lander [Astrobotic], Keystone Space Collaborative, NASA, NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), NEUTRON Accoustic Tester, News

Firefly Aerospace completes lander structure before NASA’s Moon landing

October 8, 2023

Firefly Aerospace has completed the development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for Firefly’s first lunar mission slated to land on the […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Blue Ghost Mission, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Firefly Aerospace, Lunar Lander, Lunar Orbit, NASA, Payloads, Scientific Payloads

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