Blue Ghost Moon Landing Scheduled: March 2, 2025 | Firefly Aerospace

Blue Ghost Moon Landing Scheduled: March 2, 2025 | Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 prepares to land at Mare Crisium, on the near side of the Moon, on March 2, 2025, no earlier than 3:34am Eastern Standard Time (ET) (0834 UTC). Livestream with NASA begins at 2:20am Eastern Standard Time (ET). During landing, Blue Ghost's bandwidth will be dedicated to critical descent operations, but you will see live data from Mission Control in Texas here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY

This is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Blue Ghost is seeking to land in Mare Crisium to deliver ten NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon. They will perform numerous science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.

Learn more about the Mission: https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Image Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Release Date: March 1, 2025

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