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Blue Ghost Mission 5 (Moon Base CS-8)
NET ~2028 (CS-8 Moon Base) · Blue Ghost · planned
2028 Moon Base CS-8 Firefly delivery: Blue Ghost to the near side (site TBA) with NASA SCALPSS, LRA, and LETS.
CS-8 Moon Base batch, Firefly Blue Ghost surface delivery with NASA instrument suite.
$144,200,000 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 M5 CLPS delivery award (CS-8 Firefly)
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 5 is a CS-8 Moon Base delivery. · Firefly Aerospace · nasa.govBlue Ghost M5 NASA science suite (award-level shell)
CS-8 award-level NASA science on Blue Ghost Mission 5. · NASA · 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 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.comCS-8 Firefly Blue Ghost delivery (M5)
NASA's CS-8 Moon Base award to Firefly covers one Blue Ghost-class delivery, Mission 5, at $144.2 million. · Firefly Aerospace · nasa.govCS-8 Moon Base science preview package (multi-vendor)
NASA CS-8 multi-award Moon Base science preview: Astrobotic package + Firefly BG-M5 + IM-6 delivery awards (public June-class release). · NASA · nasa.govLEROS 4-ET main engine
LEROS 4-ET is Nammo UK's bipropellant main engine on Firefly Blue Ghost. · Nammo UK · nammo.comLETS radiation spectrometer (BG-M5 / CS-8 Firefly)
NASA LETS Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer on Blue Ghost Mission 5 CS-8 accelerated near-side package. · NASA · fireflyspace.comLRA on BG-M5 (CS-8 Firefly)
A NASA Goddard laser retroreflector is booked on Blue Ghost Mission 5. · NASA · fireflyspace.comSCALPSS on BG-M5 (CS-8 Firefly)
SCALPSS is NASA Langley's plume-surface camera suite booked on Blue Ghost Mission 5. · NASA · fireflyspace.comZeno Survive-the-Night Package (Am-241 RHU) on Blue Ghost M5
Zeno Power is flying its Survive-the-Night Package on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 5 (NASA CS-8 near-side, NET ~2028). · Zeno Power · fireflyspace.comCargo
Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer
Measure charged-particle radiation (linear energy transfer) at the surface to characterize the lunar radiation environment for crew and electronics. · NASA · nasa.govStereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies
Demo for landing plume. Stereo imaging of engine plume interaction with regolith during descent/landing to improve models for multi-lander operations and landing pads. · NASA · science.nasa.govLaser Retroreflector Array
Demo for navigation. Passive laser ranging fiducial for precise orbit determination and future navigation/landing relative positioning. · NASA · science.nasa.govZeno Power Survive-the-Night Package (americium-241 radioisotope heater unit)
Demo for thermal. Commercial radioisotope heater unit (americium-241, 5 Wt class) and support platform on Firefly's 2028 near-side Blue Ghost (CS-8 / Mission 5). · Zeno Power · fireflyspace.comRelated flights
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