A new company just stamped its name on the moon
Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 will send the first U.S. lander to Mare Crisium
Near the Moon's eastern limb lies Mare Crisium - the Sea of Crises - a low basalt plain embayed by rugged mountains. Carved by a colossal impact some 3.9 billion years ago, the 460-mile-wide (740 ...
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Perfect Moon landing in Mare Crisium
Focus: Moon, planetary research, spaceflight With a fully automated, picture-perfect landing, the Blue Ghost mission touched down on the morning of 2 March 2025 Central European Time (CET) in Mare ...
Firefly’s picture-perfect Moon landing shows the way for lunar exploration
The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...
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MARE CRISIUM IMPACT BASIN (IMAGE)
From within the Mare Crisium impact basin, the SwRI-led Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) may provide the first geophysical measurements representative of the bulk of the Moon. Most of the ...
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Section 1: The lunar seas
Most of the lunar seas are joined together. However, the next one is an exception. Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises) is an isolated oval sea, roughly 350 miles across. It’s fairly easy to pick out to ...
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Experimental computer developed at Montana State lands safely on the moon
The shadow of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken shortly after confirmation of a successful landing at Mare Crisium on the moon’s near side. Onboard is a radiation-tolerant computer developed at ...