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.