Hardware

Elytra Dark orbital vehicle (BG-M2 stack)

Firefly Aerospace

Elytra Dark is Firefly's transfer vehicle and orbital platform on Blue Ghost Mission 2.

Mission brief

It carries the stack to lunar orbit, deploys the Blue Ghost lander and ESA's Lunar Pathfinder, and stays in lunar orbit as a communications relay and for calibration services.

Schematic

The vehicle is the Elytra Dark cargo seat on Blue Ghost Mission 2. Blue Ghost and Lunar Pathfinder deploy from it.

Walk: Blue Ghost M2

Companies

Flights

Blue Ghost Mission 2NET 2027 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 (CS-3 ~$112M, charter-bg2): planned far-side dual-stack (Blue Ghost stacked on Elytra Dark + ESA Lunar Pathfinder).

Cargo

Sources