Successfully landedTrust: Agency-primaryLast verified 2026-05-28

Blue Ghost

Ghost Riders in the Sky

First fully successful commercial soft landing on the Moon (upright, full mission). Operated 346 hours (~14.4 lunar days of daylight + post-sunset science) before battery depletion. Awarded the 2025 Collier Trophy.

Mission specifications

Operator: Firefly Aerospace
Prime contractor: Firefly Aerospace
Launch: 2025-01-15
Landing: 2025-03-02
Landing site: Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille (lunar near side)
Customer: NASA-CLPS
Payload: 10 NASA CLPS payloadsas of 2025-03-02^[2]
Contract value: $101.5Mas of 2025-03-02^[3]Initial 2021 CLPS Task Order to Firefly for 10 payloads

Source bibliography

[1]
Firefly Aerospaceretrieved 2026-05-28
https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-becomes-first-commercial-company-to-successfully-land-on-the-moon/
[2]
NASA NSSDCAretrieved 2026-05-28
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=BLUEGHOST
[3]
Firefly Aerospaceretrieved 2026-05-28
https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Successfully landedTrust: Agency-primaryLast verified 2026-05-28

Blue Ghost

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Mission specifications

Operator: Firefly Aerospace
Prime contractor: Firefly Aerospace
Launch: 2025-01-15
Landing: 2025-03-02
Landing site: Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille (lunar near side)
Customer: NASA-CLPS
Payload: 10 NASA CLPS payloadsas of 2025-03-02^[2]
Contract value: $101.5Mas of 2025-03-02^[3]Initial 2021 CLPS Task Order to Firefly for 10 payloads

Source bibliography

[1]
Firefly Aerospaceretrieved 2026-05-28
https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-becomes-first-commercial-company-to-successfully-land-on-the-moon/
[2]
NASA NSSDCAretrieved 2026-05-28
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=BLUEGHOST
[3]
Firefly Aerospaceretrieved 2026-05-28
https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Blue Ghost

Mission specifications

Source bibliography

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Mission specifications

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