The lander of Texas-based rocket and spacecraft builder Firefly Aerospace has begun a 45-day trip to the moon.

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

A SpaceX mission set to lift off overnight marks a first for Firefly Aerospace under NASA's plans to build up American ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will fly a 60-day mission to deliver a suite of NASA science equipment to the ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

One of those firms is Firefly Aerospace. Headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, it was founded in 2017 and began flying its Firefly Alpha orbital rockets in 2021. It is also building the first stage ...

Now he's senior mission operations engineer for Firefly Aerospace's uncrewed Blue Ghost ... its own Medium Launch Vehicle (in addition to its Alpha rocket) capable of carrying spacecraft such ...

The Japanese company will attempt its second landing on the Moon after it failed to do so in April 2023. Named Mission 2, it ...

That growth has been driven by SpaceX, which accounted for every Vandenberg orbital launch in 2024 except for one launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket in July. An environmental study ...