Blue Ghost Completes Historic Private Moon Mission, Now Silent on Lunar Surface

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost achieved a flawless lunar landing and completed its scientific objectives before succumbing to the lunar night.

Blue Ghost became the first private lunar lander to successfully complete a mission without crashing, marking a significant milestone for commercial space exploration.
The lander operated for two weeks on the Moon's surface, conducting 10 NASA-backed experiments, including studies of lunar regolith, heat flow, and Earth's magnetosphere.
Stunning footage of Blue Ghost's soft landing captured unprecedented detail of its thrusters interacting with the lunar surface, providing valuable data for future missions.
The mission concluded with a final transmission as the lander entered the extreme cold of the lunar night, which its solar-powered systems could not survive.
Firefly Aerospace plans to build on this success with annual lunar missions, advancing technology for NASA and other future space exploration efforts.