A Cedar Park-based aerospace company was awarded a $21.81 million contract to launch a U.S. Space Force mission, the company has announced. Firefly Aerospace will launch Space Force's Space ...

Literally, figuratively over the moon': Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on lunar surface Lunar landing comes after 45-day trip through space The landing concludes a more-than 2.8 million-mile journey ...

The Blue Ghost mission cost the space agency about $145 million—$101 million for Firefly's contract plus $44 million for the lander's government-provided science payloads. There are no modern ...

Blue Ghost launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace became the second company to land on the Moon ...

The company’s first successful Alpha launch happened last summer and the second is scheduled to take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base next year. Firefly noted that the company’s Alpha ...

Blue Ghost launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. With its cinematic landing, Firefly Aerospace became the second private ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas, Feb. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace, Inc., the leader in responsive space launch services, today announced the company was awarded a $21.81 million contract to ...

reaching the surface a month and a half after launching atop a SpaceX rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The moonshot by Firefly, an upstart primarily building rockets ...

The shadow of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander splayed across the surface of the Moon shortly after the spacecraft’s March 2 touchdown. Credit: Firefly Aerospace In terms of science return ...