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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 - critical soft-landing micro component. · Firefly Aerospace · fireflyspace.comBlue Ghost M1 CLPS delivery (TO19D class)
Firefly firm-fixed-price CLPS delivery for 10 NASA payloads on Blue Ghost Mission 1 - program seat for the stack. · 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 Spectre biprop RCS thrusters (in-house)
Eight in-house Spectre biprop RCS thrusters (~1,600 N total) for orientation and soft-landing assist - distinct from Nammo LEROS main engine. · 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 - process shop under Firefly RCS path. · 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. · SpaceX · fireflyspace.comFlorida Falcon ops for commercial lunar launches
Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 (and Falcon Heavy path) operations that launched or will launch CLPS and private lunar landers (IM, Firefly, ispace, Astrobotic Griffin path, etc.). · 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
Boston University LEXI - wide-FOV soft X-ray imaging of Earth's magnetosheath from lunar surface. · Boston University · science.nasa.govLISTER heat-flow probe 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 - flight debut on soft-landing commercial lunar lander. · 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. · 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 - 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 nav lineage (BG-M2 product line)
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 - deeper than camera-only node. · Redwire · rdw.comRocket Lab lunar supplier class (PVA + MAX software)
Rocket Lab supplied solar arrays and MAX flight and 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 (lunar CLPS enable class)
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 cameras and vision navigation flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1. · Redwire · rdw.comRelated flights
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