The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...
One of those came March 2, when the robotic craft built by Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial ...
A graphic on Firefly’s live feed showed Blue Ghost’s orientation, altitude and airspeed. Green circles representing the craft ...
After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...
The jets pulsed as needed to control velocity and orientation before slowing the craft to just 2.2 ... surface contact sensors on Blue Ghost's shock-absorbing landing legs indicated they were ...