Space-ng optical navigation software provides terrain relative navigation, hazard detection, and attitude determination from ...
The spacecraft, called Blue Ghost, was built by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace. Launched on Jan. 15, it made a remarkably ...
Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...
Firefly Aerospace’s official X account posted the breathtaking photo on March 14, writing, “#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 ...
Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1.” ...
Blue Ghost is only the second private lander to soft-land on the Moon, touching down in the Mare Crisium region, near a volcanic cone known as Mons Latreille.
As a large swathe of Earth was treated to the rare sight of the blood Moon during last week's lunar eclipse, one lonely robot ...