{"id":182498,"date":"2025-03-05T03:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=97b8b93aceb86089c81f2767cc1ed7fe"},"modified":"2025-03-05T03:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:54:47","slug":"blue-ghost-lands-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=182498","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost Lands on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon\u2019s near side.<\/div>\n
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The shadow of Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; these instruments will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunar day, or about 14 Earth days. The successful Moon delivery is part of NASA\u2019s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative<\/a> and\u00a0Artemis<\/a>\u00a0campaign. This is the first CLPS delivery for Firefly, and their first Moon landing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Learn more about Blue Ghost Mission 1.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: Firefly Aerospace<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The shadow of Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; these instruments will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunar day, or about 14 Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-lunar-payload-services-clps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182499,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182498\/revisions\/182499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}