Firefly Aerospace Adds UAE’s Rashid 2 Rover to Blue Ghost Mission to the Far Side of the Moon
The rover will join Firefly’s second lunar mission in 2026 in addition to other payloads, incl. NASA’s LuSEE-Night radio telescope.
The Best Photos Taken by the Blue Ghost Moon Lander https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/the-best-photos-taken-by-the-blue-ghost-moon-lander/ #fireflyaerospace #lunarlander #moonlander #blueghost #Features #Space #moon
Première mondiale à #Calern (site #oca) la station de télémétrie laser #MéO localise le lander Blue Ghost sur la #Lune en un temps record !
Seulement 27 heures après l'alunissage de la mission #blueghost des chercheurs @CNRS_INSU de @umrGeoazur #LTE-ObsParis ont mesuré avec une précision remarquable la distance séparant la #Terre du nouveau réflecteur NGLR-1.
Cette prouesse technologique ouvre de nouvelles perspectives pour la physique fondamentale et l'étude de la Lune
https://www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/premiere-mondiale-calern-la-station-laser-meo-localise-le-lander-blue-ghost-sur-la-lune-en
Firefly Aerospace Selects Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics to Provide Rover for Lunar Mission to Gruithuisen Domes
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"Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode
Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data, I will hold vigil on this spot in #MareCrisium to watch humanity's continued journey to the stars.
Here, I will outlast your mightiest rivers, your tallest mountains, and perhaps even your species as we know it.
But it is remarkable that a species might be outlasted by its own ingenuity.
[...]
Per aspera ad astra!
Love, #BlueGhost"
This is amazing. It’s a video from the the lunar lander #BlueGhost that just finished its one day lunar day (two Earth week) mission doing the gods work for the species. It is of the moment the sunset on the moon. #Space https://youtube.com/watch?v=IpA9DORDkeE&si=P1J1MANHehoMlLBM
Blue Ghost Moon Lander Captures First-Ever Photos of a Lunar Sunset https://petapixel.com/2025/03/19/blue-ghost-moon-lander-captures-first-ever-photos-of-a-lunar-sunset/ #fireflyaerospace #lunarlander #lunarsunset #blueghost #sunset #Space #News #moon
A Lunar Sunset Video capturing the horizon glow. The NASA science team is excited to analyze these images further and share more on the findings soon!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace 
https://flic.kr/p/2qSJJfR
Sunset on the Moon captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. With Earth and Venus on top of that!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace https://flic.kr/p/2qSHJA7
Way more images of the lunar sunset from #BlueGhost dropped moments ago in a 1-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpA9DORDkeE and on https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54395416629/ where also some more stills are included - interpretation remains up to the viewer as at the press conference which just ended they just had no clues.
They began the #BlueGhost presser with two pictures taken at / after sunset ... which they then didn't discuss further so far: on the left the Sun on the horizon and Venus (the dot) and Earth (overexposed) above it, on the right some glow over the Sun below the horizon which requires further analysis. So there ...
At the top of the hour a NASA and Firefly Final Update on #BlueGhost Moon Mission live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSy69T0HuZ4
NASA and Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Mission Wrap Up Briefing
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasa-and-firefly-final-update-on-blue-ghost-moon-mission/
The #BlueGhost met 100 percent of its mission objectives and *did* operate 5 hours into the lunar night - what was learned will be discussed in a news conference Tuesday at 18:00 UTC: https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-successfully-completes-14-days-of-surface-operations-on-the-moon/
Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode.
Goodnight friends.
Blue Ghost’s final message as it signs off from the Moon
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander at sunset with a crescent Earth on the horizon.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace https://flic.kr/p/2qSvk6A
