Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon, Taking Dazzling Photographs
Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest planetary rovers ever designed, and it wouldn't look out of place in an RC car toy shop. Tenacious measures 10 inches tall and weighs just 5 pounds.
Say hello to the moon in stunning footage as Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit
Aiming to be just the second ever commercial soft landing on the moon, the Blue Ghost mission has arrived in lunar orbit - and captured some incredible views.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your In
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway through its journey to the Moon. The mission, named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” will spend around 16 days in lunar orbit before attempting a soft touchdown on the lunar surface.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Nears Lunar Touchdown With 10 Game-Changing NASA Instruments
NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith collection, thermal mapping, navigation, and radiation-resistant computing. The
Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate the milestone.
Lunar-bound Blue Ghost captures stunning video of Earth
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft has captured a stunning video clip of Earth ahead of its arrival on the lunar surface.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Snaps a Breathtaking Earth Selfie on Its Way to the Moon
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a radiation-hardened computer, a magnetic field detector, and a lunar soil collection system.
Blue Ghost Successfully Reaches Lunar Orbit—Next Stop: Mare Crisium
In a major achievement for both Firefly Aerospace and the future of lunar exploration, the Blue Ghost lander has officially reached lunar orbit. This momentous event, which took place on February 13,
Firefly’s Blue Ghost moon mission shares its most stunning image yet
“Now four weeks into the mission, Blue Ghost has downlinked more than 15 GB of data, including NASA science data, from record-breaking GNSS signals to magnetic field measurements, that is already unlocking insights for the future of space exploration,” Firefly Aerospace wrote in an update.
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.
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Blue Origin spacecraft successfully simulates moon’s gravity: See video of launch
Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...
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Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship
For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture ... their sights on a return to the moon,” Joyce said. “This enables researchers to test lunar technologies at a fraction of the ...
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Japan's Resilience lunar lander prepares for 1st swing around the moon
The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace is ready for a flyby of the moon as part of its ...