Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...
Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.
While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...
New images released by NASA have revealed an ambitious spacecraft's landing site during its recent mission to the lunar ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...
Blue Ghost, a moon lander from Firefly Aerospace, captured the first high-definition photos of the lunar sunset from the moon ...
It was the second moon landing this week by a Texas company under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program. Sunday’s touchdown was a complete success. Intuitive Machines’ newest Athena ...
A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...