Firefly Blue Ghost

Blue Ghost is a class of lunar landers designed and built by Firefly Aerospace to deliver small payloads to the Moon, mainly under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. It is named after the blue ghost firefly, Phausis reticulata. A LEROS 4-ET main engine from Nammo UK, burning MON and hydrazine, handles lunar orbit insertion and the powered descent, eight Spectre thrusters control attitude, four carbon composite legs take the landing, and solar panels supply up to 400 watts. Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on a Falcon 9 on 15 January 2025 and landed in Mare Crisium on 2 March 2025. A third mission is planned near the Mons Gruithuisen Gamma dome and a fourth to the rim of Haworth Crater near the lunar south pole.