Blue Ghost Mission
Daily Highlights (2 min series) - English
3rd March 2025
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed on the Moon.
- This is the first CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery for Firefly under NASA’s Artemis campaign.
- About Blue Ghost Mission: It’s objective carried a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments under the CLPS initiative.
o Instruments will operate for one lunar day (14 Earth days) on the lunar surface.
- Landing & Configuration: Lander is in an upright and stable configuration after touchdown.
o First Moon landing for Firefly Aerospace.
- Journey & Scientific Contributions: Launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
o Record-breaking signal tracking (246,000 miles) from Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment.
o Conducted experiments on: Radiation-tolerant computing (through Van Allen Belts).
o Magnetic field changes in space (Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder payload).
- Surface Operations & Research: Tests lunar subsurface drilling, regolith sampling, radiation-tolerant computing, and dust mitigation methods.
o Data to improve understanding of space weather and cosmic forces impacting Earth.
o Will capture lunar sunset imagery and dust behavior at dusk, a phenomenon first observed in Apollo 17.
o Lander to operate for several hours into the lunar night after sunset.
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