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.
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
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 
Sunset on the Moon captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. With Earth and Venus on top of that!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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/
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
Sunset Shadow
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures photo of its shadow on the Moon with the volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, visible on the top right side of the lunar surface.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Not everyone’s rockets are blowing up:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lunar-eclipse-moon-lander-blue-ghost
High resolution image of the eclipse seen from the Moon by #BlueGhost. You can also spot Mercury (left) and Venus (right) just above the eclipse! This is amazing!!!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Out of this world footage captured from the Moon by the #BlueGhost lander during the solar eclipse.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Here is a time-lapse video posted by Firefly Aerospace of the solar eclipse and "diamond ring" seen by the Blue Ghost Lander last night.
The glowing ring of the eclipse is also reflected on the solar panel.
The large ring seen in the reflection on the solar panel is clearly an artifact.
Earth looks small because of the wide angle lens.
#BlueGhost healthily survived the ~2 hours of totality with little sunlight to charge its batteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2P-z_cXsOs
https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/
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Images *from the moon* of the sun and earth during the lunar eclipse. It's like a lunar solar eclipse!
#space #moon #eclipse #firefly #blueghost
Space.com: "Wow! Private lunar lander watches 'diamond ring' eclipse from the surface of the moon (photo)"
https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/wow-private-lunar-lander-watches-diamond-ring-eclipse-from-the-surface-of-the-moon-photo
NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage. The Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument took the images during the descent and successful soft landing.
Credit: NASA/Olivia Tyrrell
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-cameras-on-blue-ghost-capture-first-of-its-kind-moon-landing-footage #BGM1
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost captured the Earth from the lunar surface with a wide-lens cameras on its top deck.
Captured: Mar. 3, 2025; released: March 13
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
LISTER Drill Surface Operations. NASA's instrument for subsurface thermal exploration began drilling into the surface shortly after landing to determine the heat flow from the interior of the Moon.
Released Mar. 10, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qRfAfo
