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.
And they succeeded. As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the ...
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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’: The first image from the moon after privately-funded lunar lander touches downTwo other companies’ landers are hot on Blue Ghost’s heels, with the next one expected to join it on the moon later this week. Launched in mid-January from Florida, the two-metre tall lander ...
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is first up. The company's 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) Blue Ghost lunar lander is on track to touch down on the moon's near side at 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET ...
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