Spacecraft beams back stunning moon video before ambitious landing
The 6.6-foot-tall lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of instruments and experiments for the space agency as NASA prepares to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This includes radiation-tolerant computing tests and sampling of the lunar regolith.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.
A US startup’s robotic spacecraft is poised to attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, the first in a series of upcoming missions ...
This geophysicist will be watching anxiously as his groundbreaking experiment careens toward the lunar surface aboard Firefly ...
Cameras built by scientists and researchers at NASA Langley are headed to the moon. At about 3:45 a.m. Sunday, aerospace firm ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has a payload which will attempt to acquire a GPS signal from the moon, revolutionizing ...
Like throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye on a moving target in the next city over: that’s what it’s like trying to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Blue Ghost is delivering a fleet of NASA instruments to study the moon's environment ahead of human exploration.
Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is snapping stunning photos on its way to a lunar landing attempt. They show a new era of moon ...
Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...
MORE: In the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2, a lunar lander built just north of Austin, Texas will touchdown on the ...
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