Firefly Aerospace’s first attempt to land on the moon was successful. The company is working with NASA, which announced early Sunday that its Blue Ghost Lander, which is erect and has returned home with the team, announced on Sunday morning that it has landed softly on the moon. Blue Ghost landed at 3:34 AM ET in a region in Mare Crisium. Although Firefly’s lander is not the first commercial spacecraft to land on the moon yes The first person to land correctly was the intuitive machine of Odysseus, which had previously planned for faster descents.
The Blue Ghost and its NASA instruments are expected to remain in operation for about 14 days. After that, Lunar Night will begin. If everything goes as planned, the lander will capture the image in Moon Night, and a few hours after the darkness falls, obtaining HD images of a complete solar eclipse, lunar sunset and other moments to record the behavior of suspended lunar dust. NASA is also testing instruments that can drill and collect samples from surfaces.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 was launched on January 15 and arrived at Lunar Orbit about a month later. The team said it had sent 27 GB of data back to Earth from its journey. “Just passing through the transit to the moon, Firefly’s mission has provided the most scientific data for the NASA CLPS program,” Firefly’s chief technology officer Shea Ferring said in a statement. On X, the company shared a photo showing the shadow of the ground on the moon’s surface after a successful touchdown and joked, “The lander saw her shadow, and there were 2 weeks of action!”
