Firefly Releases Stunning Footage of Blue Ghost Landing on the Moon
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 within a 328-foot (100-meter) target next to a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
A Houston-based space company just released a tantalizing sneak preview — an image sequence of its robotic spacecraft flying ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
Firefly Aerospace became the second US company to land on the moon on Sunday with its debut Blue Ghost lander, kicking off a two-week research mission as one of a handful of private firms to reach ...
Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines ...
Also eyeing the moon are U.S.-aligned Japan and India, which made its first soft lunar landing in 2023. Firefly has a ...
The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted ...
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