Firefly Aerospace Achieves First Fully Successful Commercial Lunar Landing

The Blue Ghost lander touched down on the Moon, delivering NASA payloads and marking a milestone in private space exploration.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully landed upright in Mare Crisium, marking the first fully successful commercial Moon landing under NASA's CLPS initiative.
The lander carried 10 NASA instruments to conduct 14 Earth days of lunar surface operations, including subsurface drilling, regolith sample collection, and lunar dust behavior studies.
Blue Ghost transmitted over 27 gigabytes of data during its 45-day, 2.8 million-mile journey, showcasing technological advancements like record-breaking GNSS signal tracking and radiation-tolerant computing.
This mission, part of NASA's Artemis program, aims to advance planetary science and support future human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Firefly Aerospace plans to continue annual lunar missions, further contributing to the growing commercial space economy and cislunar exploration.