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Blue Ghost Mission 2
NET 2027 · Blue Ghost · planned
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 (CS-3 ~$112M, charter-bg2): planned far-side dual-stack (Blue Ghost stacked on Elytra Dark + ESA Lunar Pathfinder).
CS-3 far-side surface delivery.
$112,000,000 public package award.
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BG-M2 dual-spacecraft stack AIT / env test
Firefly stacked Blue Ghost on Elytra Dark, with Lunar Pathfinder in the stack, and ran the full assembly through environmental tests at NASA JPL. · Firefly Aerospace · jpl.nasa.govBG-M2 full-stack vibration qualification at JPL ETL
NASA JPL vibration-tested a full-scale Blue Ghost, Elytra, and Lunar Pathfinder stack for launch loads. · Firefly Aerospace · jpl.nasa.govBlue 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 M2 CLPS delivery (CS-3)
NASA's CLPS awards to Firefly cover Blue Ghost Mission 2's surface landing and the Elytra orbital service. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue 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 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.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.comCLPS CS-3 delivery (Blue Ghost M2 + Lunar Pathfinder)
NASA's CS-3 task order to Firefly covers Blue Ghost Mission 2's far-side landing and delivery of ESA's Lunar Pathfinder into lunar orbit. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comCLPS CS-4 Elytra RF calibration TO ~$18M
NASA CLPS CS-4 ~$18M TO (Sep 2023) for Firefly Elytra RF calibration services from lunar orbit supporting LuSEE-Night. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comElytra Dark orbital vehicle (BG-M2 stack)
Elytra Dark is Firefly's orbital tug on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comElytra dual payload attach fitting
Firefly's dual payload attach fitting holds Blue Ghost and Lunar Pathfinder on Elytra and separates them in space. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comElytra RF-cal deployable antenna (MMA Space)
MMA Space is named for the deployable RF-calibration antenna on Firefly's Elytra vehicle on Blue Ghost Mission 2, supporting LuSEE-Night. · MMA Space · fireflyspace.comElytra RF-cal radio (Vulcan Wireless)
Vulcan Wireless is named for the RF-calibration radio on Firefly's Elytra vehicle on Blue Ghost Mission 2, supporting LuSEE-Night. · Vulcan Wireless · fireflyspace.comESA Moonlight LCNS constellation (planned)
ESA Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services constellation is future enable for commercial lander PNT/comms. · European Space Agency (ESA) · esa.intFalcon 9 launch path (Blue Ghost M2)
SpaceX Falcon 9 tracked as launch path for Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 dual stack (NET late 2026). · SpaceX · satnews.comFirefly Ocula lunar imaging (Elytra constellation path)
Firefly Ocula lunar imaging service path using multi-Elytra Dark constellation after BG-M2/M3/M4 deployments. · Firefly Aerospace · 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 User Terminal S-band Proximity-1 (BG-M2)
NASA JPL's User Terminal is an S-band radio on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · NASA · jpl.nasa.govLEROS 4-ET main engine
LEROS 4-ET is Nammo UK's bipropellant main engine on Firefly Blue Ghost. · Nammo UK · nammo.comLunar Pathfinder GNSS navigation demo (ESA/UKSA)
A GNSS receiver on ESA's Lunar Pathfinder, funded with UKSA, tries to lock weak GPS and Galileo signals from Earth at the Moon. · European Engineering & Consultancy Ltd (EECL) · gov.ukLunar Pathfinder relay satellite (rideshare host stack)
ESA/SSTL commercial lunar comms relay deployed with Blue Ghost Mission 2 / Elytra orbital segment. · Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) · spacenews.comLuSEE-Night antennas and turntable (Berkeley Lab)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory built LuSEE-Night's four Stacer antennas and the turntable they sit on, for Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · physicalsciences.lbl.govLuSEE-Night integration (UC Berkeley SSL)
UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory is responsible for overall integration of LuSEE-Night on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · UC Berkeley (Space Sciences Laboratory) · bnl.govLuSEE-Night radio astronomy (Blue Ghost Mission 2)
LuSEE-Night is a low-frequency radio astronomy instrument on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · science.nasa.govLuSEE-Night spectrometer (Brookhaven)
Brookhaven National Laboratory designed and built the core LuSEE-Night science instrument on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Brookhaven National Laboratory · bnl.govNVIDIA Jetson on Firefly Elytra for Ocula
Firefly is flying an NVIDIA Jetson module on Elytra in lunar orbit so Ocula can process Moon pictures on board during Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comOcula imaging telescopes (LLNL on Elytra residual)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory telescopes enable Firefly Ocula lunar imaging on Elytra residual life after BG-M2 CLPS phases. · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · fireflyspace.comRashid 2 rover (MBRSC on BG-M2)
Rashid 2 is the UAE's second lunar rover, built by MBRSC. · Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre · fireflyspace.comRedwire vision navigation (Blue Ghost family)
Redwire cameras and vision navigation flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Redwire · rdw.comSPIDER seismic payload (Fleet Space) on BG-M2
Fleet Space Technologies SPIDER geophysics/seismic instrument commercial rideshare on Blue Ghost Mission 2 far side. · Fleet Space Technologies · fireflyspace.comUT, Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment / JPL comms path (BG-M2)
NASA JPL UT (radiometer / electromagnetic surface experiment class on CS-3 manifests) for Blue Ghost Mission 2 far-side science stack. · NASA · science.nasa.govVolta LightPort wireless power receiver (BG-M2)
Volta Space Technologies LightPort wireless power receiver tech demo on Blue Ghost M2 far-side top deck. · Volta Space Technologies · fireflyspace.comCargo
Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night
LuSEE-Night is a low-frequency radio telescope on Blue Ghost Mission 2, led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the Department of Energy. · NASA · science.nasa.govJPL User Terminal S-band Proximity-1 (BG-M2)
NASA JPL's User Terminal is an S-band radio on the Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander. · NASA · fireflyspace.comLunar Pathfinder
Lunar Pathfinder is ESA's communications relay satellite, built by SSTL and funded with the UK Space Agency. · European Space Agency (ESA) · fireflyspace.comRashid 2 rover (MBRSC on BG-M2)
Rashid 2 is the United Arab Emirates' second lunar rover, built by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre. · Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre · fireflyspace.comElytra Dark orbital vehicle (BG-M2 stack)
Demo for orbital transfer. Elytra Dark is Firefly's transfer vehicle and orbital platform on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comElytra RF-cal deployable antenna (MMA Space)
The deployable antenna on Firefly's Elytra vehicle provides radio-frequency calibration for LuSEE-Night from lunar orbit, under an $18 million NASA contract. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comElytra RF-cal radio (Vulcan Wireless)
The radio behind Elytra's RF-calibration service for LuSEE-Night on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comSPIDER seismic payload (Fleet Space) on BG-M2
SPIDER is Fleet Space Technologies' seismic instrument, flying as a commercial rideshare on Blue Ghost Mission 2. · Fleet Space Technologies · fireflyspace.comVolta LightPort wireless power receiver (BG-M2)
Volta Space Technologies' LightPort is a wireless power receiver riding the top deck of the Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander on the far side. · Volta Space Technologies · fireflyspace.comOcula imaging telescopes (LLNL on Elytra residual)
Ocula is Firefly's commercial lunar imaging service, flown on the Elytra orbital vehicle. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comRelated flights
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