Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed on moon on 2 March 2025 near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium. Mare Crisium is a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon’s near side.
- The successful Moon delivery is part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign.
- This is the first CLPS delivery for Firefly, and their first Moon landing. The 10 NASA science and technology instruments aboard the lander will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunar day, or about 14 Earth days.
- The Blue Ghost Mission 1 was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 15, 2025.
- During surface operations, the NASA instruments will test and demonstrate lunar subsurface drilling technology, regolith sample collection capabilities, global navigation satellite system abilities, radiation tolerant computing, and lunar dust mitigation methods.
- The data captured will benefit humanity by providing insights into how space weather and other cosmic forces impact Earth.
(Source: NASA)
