15 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the 330-pound lander to space. Since then, Blue Ghost — which is named after a species of firefly found in the Southwest — has been sending back ...

Alpha is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a 52-minute window that opens at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT; 6:25 a.m. local California time). Firefly ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas – Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander Blue Ghost has delivered a stunning celestial snapshot of an out-of-this-world view of a solar eclipse while on the Moon. The image was taken about ...

“The rocket and payload remain healthy and ready for launch,” Firefly officials said adding they were working to determine the next opportunity. The window for the small rocket at Space Launch ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon, deploying experiments like the LISTER drill and NASA's Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder. The lander will conclude its ...

UPDATE: This weekend's launch is being delayed due to a "range constraint" at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Firefly Aerospace announced on Friday. The company says they are working to identify a ...

The mission, dubbed “Message in a Booster,” will launch Lockheed’s internally developed LM 400 spacecraft to low Earth orbit (LEO) from Firefly’s Space Launch Complex-2... Firefly Targets ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme, was carrying 10 Nasa payloads. The space mission is aimed at refining our understanding of the moon ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas — A private spacecraft is set to land on the moon this weekend. Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace built the Blue Ghost lunar lander for a mission with NASA. The spacecraft is ...

Oakes said at the same event that Firefly was planning five Alpha launches in 2025, all from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the site of all the company’s Alpha launches to date. The first of those ...

Firefly launched in January this year taking its time to get to the moon and then make the final approach. A fourth mission, and second from Intuitive Machines, which launched from Kennedy Space ...