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Blue Ghost Mission 1
2025-01-15 · landing 2025-03-02 · Blue Ghost · landed
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO19D ~$93.3M): Falcon 9 launch 2025-01-15 · soft landing (upright) Mare Crisium 2025-03-02 · all 10 NASA science/tech payloads operated through a full lunar day (+ hours into night).
$93,300,000 public package award.
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Blue Ghost avionics
Firefly built Blue Ghost's avionics and guidance in-house. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost carbon-composite legs + crush honeycomb
Four in-house carbon-composite landing legs with crush-core honeycomb for touchdown energy absorption on Blue Ghost M1. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost carbon-overwrapped propellant & pressurant tanks
Four propellant tanks and two helium pressurant tanks, carbon-fiber overwrapped. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost cold-gas ACS thrusters (Alpha heritage)
Twelve cold-gas ACS thrusters with Alpha rocket heritage for coast-phase pointing and propellant settling. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost dual antenna/payload gimbals
Two Firefly gimbals pointed X-band antenna and selected payload apertures (LuGRE, LEXI, NGLR) on the top deck. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost flight battery pack
In-house lander battery pack supporting multi-day lunar daylight ops. · Firefly Aerospace · prnewswire.comBlue Ghost footpad contact sensors (engine cutoff)
Footpad contact sensors trigger main-engine shutdown at touchdown is critical soft-landing micro component. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost M1 CLPS delivery (TO19D)
Firefly firm-fixed-price CLPS delivery for 10 NASA payloads on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Firefly Aerospace · nasa.govBlue Ghost M1 CLPS TO19-D delivery award
Firefly TO19-D CLPS delivery award (~$93.3M public) for Blue Ghost Mission 1 Mare Crisium science suite. · Firefly Aerospace · nasa.govBlue Ghost power / solar
Firefly vertical-integration claim for Blue Ghost power and solar resources supporting payload ops through lunar day. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost RCS / thruster package
Firefly states RCS thrusters and many non-main-engine propulsion elements built in-house on Blue Ghost (main engine remains Nammo LEROS). · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost S-band and X-band radios (Vulcan Wireless)
Vulcan Wireless supplied S-band and X-band radios on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Vulcan Wireless · vulcanwireless.comBlue Ghost Spectre biprop RCS thrusters (in-house)
Eight in-house Spectre biprop RCS thrusters (~1,600 N total) for orientation and soft-landing assist. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comCastheon additive RCS thruster hardware (Spectre / C-103)
Castheon (ADDMAN) refractory additive manufacturing of Firefly Spectre RCS thruster hardware (C-103-class) for Blue Ghost M1. · Castheon (ADDMAN) · addmangroup.comCedar Park spacecraft AIT (Blue Ghost)
Firefly Aerospace Cedar Park TX spacecraft facility for Blue Ghost design, build, cleanroom AIT, and mission ops. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comEDS electrodynamic dust shield
The Electrodynamic Dust Shield is a NASA Kennedy experiment on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · NASA · science.nasa.govFalcon 9 launch service (Blue Ghost M1)
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 on 15 January 2025. · SpaceX · fireflyspace.comFlorida Falcon ops for commercial lunar launches
Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy operations launch CLPS and private lunar landers, including Intuitive Machines, Firefly, ispace, and Astrobotic Griffin. · SpaceX · nasa.govJPL environmental testing (Blue Ghost M1 flight article)
Firefly shipped Blue Ghost M1 with 10 NASA payloads to NASA JPL for environmental testing before Cape Canaveral launch campaign. · Firefly Aerospace · prnewswire.comLEROS 4-ET main engine
LEROS 4-ET is Nammo UK's bipropellant main engine on Firefly Blue Ghost. · Nammo UK · nammo.comLEXI soft X-ray imager
LEXI is Boston University's wide-FOV soft X-ray imager on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Boston University · science.nasa.govLISTER heat-flow probe (Texas Tech PI / Honeybee mechanism)
Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Honeybee Robotics · science.nasa.govLMS magnetotelluric sounder
The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder is Southwest Research Institute's instrument on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) · science.nasa.govLPV, Lunar PlanetVac (Honeybee)
Honeybee Robotics Lunar PlanetVac pneumatic sample acquisition system on Blue Ghost M1 (PlanetVac product line class). · Honeybee Robotics · science.nasa.govLRO, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (site intel enable)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has mapped the Moon for years. · NASA · lunar.gsfc.nasa.govLuGRE GNSS receiver experiment
NASA GSFC / ASI / Qascom path: GNSS (GPS+Galileo) in cislunar and on lunar surface on Blue Ghost M1. · Qascom S.r.l. · science.nasa.govLunar PlanetVac pneumatic sampler
Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Honeybee Robotics · science.nasa.govMarotta fluid control valves (FDV060 + MV130HLT-L)
Marotta Controls fill/drain (FDV060) and latching isolation (MV130HLT-L CoRe) valves on Blue Ghost M1 propulsion fluid system. · Marotta Controls · marotta.comNGC Aerospace lunar optical navigation demo (BG-M1)
NGC Aerospace (Canada) global lunar optical navigation demonstration payload on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · NGC Aerospace · ngcaerospace.comNGLR next-gen lunar retroreflector
University of Maryland next-gen cube-corner retroreflector for Earth-Moon laser ranging on BG-M1. · University of Maryland · science.nasa.govPrimary structure / panels / struts
Firefly builds the Blue Ghost primary structure in-house at Cedar Park. · Firefly Aerospace · prnewswire.comQascom GNSS receiver class (LuGRE product path)
Qascom built the GNSS receiver hardware for LuGRE, which flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Qascom S.r.l. · science.nasa.govRAC regolith adherence characterization
RAC is Aegis Aerospace's dust experiment on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Aegis Aerospace · science.nasa.govRadPC radiation-tolerant computer
Montana State University RadPC tech demo is fault mitigation on commercial FPGA + dosimeters. · Montana State University · science.nasa.govRedwire cameras + vision nav processor + floodlights (BG-M1)
Redwire supplied flight cameras, vision navigation processor, and floodlights for Blue Ghost Mission 1 GNC sensing / landing ops. · Redwire · rdw.comRedwire vision navigation (Blue Ghost family)
Redwire cameras and vision navigation flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Redwire · rdw.comRedwire vision-nav processor + floodlights (BG-M1)
Redwire vision navigation processor and two flight floodlights for hazard detection/ops. · Redwire · rdw.comRocket Lab lunar supplier class (PVA + MAX software)
Rocket Lab supplied solar arrays and MAX flight/ground software on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Rocket Lab · rocketlabcorp.comRocket Lab MAX Flight / MAX Ground software (BG-M1)
Rocket Lab MAX Flight and MAX Ground data software suites publicly supporting Blue Ghost Mission 1 ops alongside PVA hardware. · Rocket Lab · rocketlabcorp.comRocket Lab solar PVAs + software (Blue Ghost M1)
Rocket Lab high-efficiency photovoltaic assemblies (~400 W class claim) and flight/ground software publicly supporting Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Rocket Lab · rocketlabcorp.comSCALPSS 1.1 plume-surface cameras
SCALPSS 1.1 is NASA Langley's camera suite on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · NASA · science.nasa.govSSC commercial ground network (Blue Ghost M1)
Swedish Space Corporation ran the ground stations for Blue Ghost Mission 1, the only public ground network named on that flight. · Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) · sscspace.comSSC ground station network (Blue Ghost M1 sole provider)
Swedish Space Corporation sole ground-station communications provider for Blue Ghost M1 transit and surface ops (Santiago, Hawaii, Australia + partners). · Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) · sscspace.comCargo
Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector
University of Maryland next-gen cube-corner retroreflector for Earth-Moon laser ranging on BG-M1. · University of Maryland · science.nasa.govRadiation Tolerant Computer System
Demo for radiation environment. Montana State University RadPC tech demo, fault mitigation on commercial FPGA + dosimeters. · Montana State University · science.nasa.govRegolith Adherence Characterization
Demo for dust. Aegis Aerospace RAC, dust accumulation on material sample wheels over lunar day. · Aegis Aerospace · science.nasa.govLunar Magnetotelluric Sounder
SwRI Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder on BG-M1, conductivity vs depth at Mare Crisium. · Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) · science.nasa.govLunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager
Boston University LEXI, wide-FOV soft X-ray imaging of Earth's magnetosheath from lunar surface. · Boston University · science.nasa.govLunar PlanetVac
Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Honeybee Robotics · science.nasa.govLunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity
Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Texas Tech University · science.nasa.govStereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies 1.1
Demo for landing plume. NASA LaRC enhanced SCALPSS camera suite for PSI topography on Blue Ghost M1 descent. · NASA · science.nasa.govElectrodynamic Dust Shield
Demo for dust. NASA KSC Electrodynamic Dust Shield, active dust mitigation tech demo on BG-M1. · NASA · science.nasa.govLunar GNSS Receiver Experiment
Qascom built the GNSS receiver hardware for LuGRE, which flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · NASA · science.nasa.govNGC Aerospace lunar optical navigation demo (BG-M1)
Demo for navigation. NGC Aerospace (Canada) global lunar optical navigation demonstration payload on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · NGC Aerospace · ngcaerospace.comRedwire cameras, vision navigation processor, and floodlights
Demo for imaging. Redwire supplied the cameras, the vision navigation processor and the floodlights that flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1, giving the lander imagery and vision-based navigation through descent and on the surface. · Redwire · rdw.comRelated flights
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