Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost science station accomplished a lot on the Moon in the last two weeks. Among other things, its instruments drilled into the Moon’s surface, tested an extraterrestrial ...

With its Blue Ghost lunar module, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever accomplished: successfully landing on the surface of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to launch a trio of Earth science smallsats that will study the formation of storms. The agency said March 4 that it awarded a task order through its ...

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday near a volcanic ...

Firefly Aerospace’s first attempt at landing on the moon was a success. The company, which is working with NASA under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, announced early ...

"Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 marks the longest surface duration commercial mission on the Moon to date, collecting extraordinary science data that will benefit humanity for decades to come," said ...

At 1:11 a.m. Wednesday morning, the sky over Cape Canaveral lit up as a SpaceX Falcon 9 leaped off the launch pad which sent NASA astronauts to the moon during the Apollo missions. That was fitting ...