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 ...

“We’re very, very much ‘competimates,'” said Patterson while speaking at a SXSW panel on March 11 alongside Josh Marshall, communications director at Intuitive Machines, and Nilufar Ramji ...

RESTON, VA, MARCH 11, 2025 – Reliant Space is proud to announce its critical role in supporting Firefly Aerospace’s control room operations for its historic Blue Ghost Mission 1, which ...

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Shadow on the Moon's Surface Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace’s historic Blue Ghost mission to the moon has officially ended after the lander made its last ...

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 ...

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 Farnborough International Space Show takes place on 19-20 March. Event CEO Gareth Rogers gives AEROSPACE a taster of what has proved to be Farnborough International’s fastest ever selling event.

A new video captures a glimpse of Blue Ghost’s surface operations as it deploys its space toolbox to gather material and data. Firefly Aerospace shared a brief, 30-second clip of Blue Ghost ...

On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.

Space Patrol also had one of Hollywood’s biggest sound stages — named in honor of Lon Chaney’s The Phantom of the Opera — at its disposal, allowing the show to paint a much more expressive ...

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 ...