Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its ...
Firefly Aerospace shared a final message from Blue Ghost as the lander's lunar mission came to a close on Sunday.
All 10 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) instruments successfully operated on the lunar surface and collected ...
A week on, and a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has just released first-of-its-kind footage of a lunar lander’s powerful engine plumes interacting with the moon’s surface, captured ...
There’s an undeniable magic to fireflies, an ephemeral charm that touches people of all ages. Also known as lightning bugs, ...
and a telescope that will observe how Earth’s protective magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, responds to space weather. Firefly is also expecting the spacecraft to deliver stunning images ...
Firefly's team will be busy operating 10 NASA-backed scientific ... Scholtes said this mission is "incredibly ambitious" because it will land in a large boulder field and is more time-restricted than ...
Firefly’s lunar landing is NASA’s second CLPS mission. The first took place last year, when Intuitive Machines—another Texas-based private space company—sent its lander to the Moon in February 2024.
A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second ...
and a telescope that will observe how Earth's protective magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, responds to space weather. Firefly is also expecting the spacecraft to deliver stunning ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has been in ... and provide data on how solar winds and Earth’s magnetic field affect the lunar surface. The mission also features tests of several pieces ...