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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Achieves Historic Moon Landing

The Texas-based company's lunar lander successfully touched down in Mare Crisium, marking the first fully successful commercial moon landing.

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The Blue Ghost has landed on the moon, stable and upright, according to Firefly Aerospace.
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Overview

  • Blue Ghost, carrying ten NASA instruments, landed upright and stable on the Moon's Mare Crisium on March 2, 2025, as part of NASA's CLPS initiative.
  • The mission, lasting approximately 14 Earth days, will conduct experiments on lunar dust, subsurface drilling, radiation-tolerant computing, and navigation systems.
  • The lander successfully utilized a vision-based navigation system to execute hazard avoidance maneuvers and land within 100 meters of its target site.
  • This marks the first commercial lunar landing without crashes or tipping, highlighting a new milestone in private-sector contributions to space exploration.
  • Blue Ghost's scientific payload includes a lunar retroreflector to enhance navigation and lunar studies, and it is set to capture images of a total solar eclipse on March 14.