Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- January 15, 2025
- Declared end
- March 16, 2025
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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Description published by the archive
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered ten NASA science and technology instruments to Mare Crisium on the near side of the Moon. The CLPS name for the delivery is CLPS Task Order (TO) 19D and the Firefly Aerospace mission name is Blue Ghost Mission 1. Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1) launched on Jan 15, 2025 and landed on March 2, 2025. The surface mission extended through one lunar day and multiple hours into the lunar night before concluding on March 16, 2025.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.clps_to_19d
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/