Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander Now in Lunar Orbit Written 18 February 2025
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Firefly Alpha’s first launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. | Credit: Jacob Rendon; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0
Spaceflight Now reports, “A robotic lander from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now in orbit around the Moon and going through its final preparations to land in the coming weeks. On Thursday, the company announced that its Blue Ghost lander fired its main engine and thrusters for four minutes and 15 seconds in a maneuver called the Lunar Orbit Insertion, which put it in an elliptical orbit around the Moon.”
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