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One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.
NASA's Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) captured the landing of Firefly's Blue Ghost landing on the ...
The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University / Firefly Aerospace | ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side with NASA's scientific instruments to study the surrounding environment ...
Blue Ghost’s suite of science equipment Blue Ghost comes equipped with 10 science instruments and technology demonstrations from NASA, some of which already began collecting data as the lunar ...
Since Blue Ghost launched Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the lander has spent weeks testing the scientific equipment it's transporting to the moon for NASA while gathering some incredible ...
Those NASA assigned to Blue Ghost are coming away with a cornucopia of new data to work with. Robert Grimm, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., ...
Blue Ghost is carrying 10 NASA experiments on board, including a drill to measure lunar heat flow, an instrument to collect rock samples and an X-ray imager to study how Earth's magnetic field is ...
The Blue Ghost mission — and its historic landing — plays a key role in NASA's initiative to send American astronauts back to the moon under its Artemis campaign, the agency's first lunar ...
Blue Ghost has piqued the interest of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which hires private space companies to send small landers and rovers to the moon.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later.
NASA’s partnership with the private sector took a key step forward with a successful moon landing. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the company, Firefly Aerospace, stuck the landing safely ...